Alibaba
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 →
Verification status
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- Pricing
- Benchmark
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Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources
- Artificial Analysis — Qwen3.8 Max (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Artificial Analysis — Alibaba models (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- BenchLM.ai Frontier AI Models (Aug 2026) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Swfte AI Model Leaderboard (Sep 2026) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- State of Open Models Summer 2026 (Hugging Face) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
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