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Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba's 2.4T-parameter open-weight flagship placing top-5 on frontier leaderboards.

Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#13
Tier
S
Score
86.3
Main category
Overall

Strengths

  • Ranks around #5 on the BenchLM frontier board as an open-weight model
  • 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE with broad multilingual and coding coverage
  • Open weights allow self-hosting with no per-token fee

Considerations

  • Trillion-parameter scale needs datacentre-class hardware to self-host
  • Slightly behind the very top proprietary flagships on peak reasoning

Price

Open weights (Qwen3.8-Max License); API $2 input / $6 output per 1M tokens via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (international)

Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.

Score breakdown

Performance
88.0
55% of score
Reputation
82.0
35% of score
Recency
92.0
10% of score

The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →

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