Qwen3.8-Max at a glance
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's largest model so far, a sparse mixture-of-experts system with about 95B active parameters, available through Model Studio with weights promised soon after.
Current standing
As of
- Rank
- #17of 43 models
Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (XHigh) · 33.7 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 (opens in a new tab)
- Recorded at publication
- 34 (v5.0.1)
as of
- Current leader
- Gemini 4 Carbon (Google) · 60
Computed from our daily snapshot; it changes as new models are measured. Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-parameter flagship with 1M context
What changed with Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max on August 3, 2026: a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion total parameters, about 95 billion active per request, and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. It is multimodal and aimed at coding, long research tasks, and long-horizon agent work.
APIs are available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, and the model can be tried in QwenWork, Alibaba's workplace agent platform. Alibaba said the weights were scheduled for release the following week. Its claimed arena rankings are self-reported.
Qwen3.8-Max benchmarks and pricing
Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexas of · Source for Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
- 34 (v5.0.1)
- Output speedas of · Source for Output speed: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
- 47 tokens/s
- Input price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Input price per 1M tokens: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
- $2.00
- Output price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Output price per 1M tokens: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
- $6.00
- Context windowas of · Source for Context window: alibabacloud.com (opens in a new tab)
- 1M tokens
How it compares
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Where to compare Qwen3.8-Max
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Why Qwen3.8-Max matters for businesses
Artificial Analysis currently lists Qwen3.8-Max at 34 on Intelligence Index v5.0.1, about 47 tokens per second, and $2/$6 per 1M input/output tokens (its page dates the listed version to September 2, 2026). For agencies serving Asia-Pacific clients, Model Studio is a practical route to a frontier-scale model.
Sources for this story
- Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max (opens in a new tab)Official
Alibaba Cloud · alibabacloud.com
- Qwen3.8-Max model analysis (opens in a new tab)Benchmark
Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai
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