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Qwen3.8 Max

2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship for coding, professional work, multimodal understanding, and long-horizon agentic workflows

Released
Aug 3 2026
Modality
Text + Image + Document + Video
Context
1M tokens
Price in / cached input / out
$1.85 / $0.23 / $5.55per 1M tokens

Quickstart

OpenAI-compatible: change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

from openai import OpenAI
import os

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.you.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["YOU_API_KEY"],
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen3.8-max",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this support ticket in two sentences."}],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Specifications

Technical details, capabilities, pricing, and data handling.

Model info

Input Modality
Text, Image, Document, Video
Output Modality
Text
Context Window
1M
Parameters
2.4T total / 95B active
License
Qwen3.8-Max License

Capabilities

Reasoning
Supported
Function calling
Supported
Structured outputs
Supported
Web search grounding
Available with You.com Search

Pricing

Input
$1.85
Cached input
$0.23
Output
$5.55

Data handling

Zero data retention
Supported
No training on customer data
Supported
Regions
US

Providers

Access models through multiple providers with automatic routing and built-in failover.

Providers serving Qwen3.8 Max
ProviderZDRNo trainingRegion
You InferenceYesYes
US
AlibabaYesYes
US

When to use Qwen3.8 Max

Guidance based on the specifications and benchmarks on this page.

Best for

  • Multi-day autonomous coding projectsQwen showed it running autonomously for over 10 days to build a self-evolving harness, with 265 commits and 127 PRs.
  • Research reproduction and ML engineeringScores 93.0% on PaperBench; Qwen showed it reproducing a paper over about 125 hours and improving on its result.
  • Professional and computer-use workHandles legal, finance, and health tasks, and scores 86.1% on OSWorld-Verified for computer use.
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Consider alternatives for

  • You need the best SWE-bench ProIn Qwen's own table, Claude Fable 5 scores 80.0% on SWE-bench Pro versus 67.7% for Qwen3.8 Max.
  • You need lower-cost multimodal agentsQwen3.7 Plus is Alibaba's cost-effective tier and also accepts image and video input.
  • You need audio inputQwen3.8 Max accepts text, image, and video input and returns text only.

Benchmarks

Qwen3.8 Max results alongside comparable models

Reasoning benchmark scores
BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxAlibabaKimi K3Moonshot AIDeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekGLM 5.3Z.aiDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekGPT-OSS 120BOpenAI
GPQA Diamond92.6%93.5%90.9%Not evaluated90.1%80.1%
Humanity's Last Exam43.6%43.5%36.8%Not evaluated37.7%14.9%
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)56.2%56%63.9%62.5%48.2%19%
IFBench82.8%Not evaluatedNot evaluatedNot evaluatedNot evaluatedNot evaluated

Scores are self-reported by each model’s developer, so settings may vary between models. Sources: Qwen3.8 Max (Hugging Face), Qwen3.8 Max (release post), Kimi K3 (Hugging Face), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Hugging Face), GLM 5.3 (Hugging Face), DeepSeek V4 Pro (Hugging Face), GPT-OSS 120B (model card).

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