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Qwen3.8 Max vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Updated August 3, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload. This is a same-family comparison, so migration details appear when the source data supports them.

Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba

65.4/100

Estimated · Public rank #31

90% interval 55.5–75.3

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Alibaba

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Evidence status unavailable

90% interval unavailable

The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. Use the documented cost, context, and runtime rows instead.

0 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

No workload recommendation clears the current evidence threshold.

Use the matched evidence, workload costs, and sourced specifications below instead of treating a point score as a universal answer.

Show secondary and unsupported calls

  • Coding work

    Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks

    Not enough matched evidence

    No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.

    Confidence: limited

  • Agentic work

    Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion

    Not enough matched evidence

    No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.

    Confidence: limited

  • Long documents

    Prompts that approach the documented context limit

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete context comparison is not sourced.

    Confidence: limited

  • Chat turn cost

    1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Cache-heavy agent loop cost

    200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Repository review cost

    50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

Shared results
0
Qwen3.8 Max only
52
Qwen3.8 Max Preview only
0
Like-for-like categories
0 / 8

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.

Agentic

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
86.1
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
1 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Coding

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
67.7
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
1 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Reasoning

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
78.3
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
2 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Knowledge

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
50.2
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
2 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Math

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multimodal

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
86.3
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
2 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Instruction following

Not comparable
Qwen3.8 Max
82.8
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Not measured
Weighted basis
1 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

A shared-evidence shape is not available.

BenchLM does not draw a radar or infer missing axes when the matched evidence is too sparse.

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Qwen3.8 Max
API rate not published
Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable

Qwen3.8 Max has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen3.8 Max Preview has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Qwen3.8 Max
API rate not published
Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable

Qwen3.8 Max has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen3.8 Max Preview has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Qwen3.8 Max
API rate not published
Fits in one request
Cached-input rate unavailable
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable
Cached-input rate unavailable

Qwen3.8 Max has no comparable published API token rate. Qwen3.8 Max Preview has no comparable published API token rate.

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Qwen3.8 Max

No comparable hosted API rate

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

No comparable hosted API rate

Documented inputs

Qwen3.8 Max

Not sourced

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Qwen3.8 Max

Not sourced

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Not sourced

Provider availability

Qwen3.8 Max

Not sourced

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Qwen3.8 Max

Reasoning

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Reasoning

Weight access

Qwen3.8 Max

Proprietary

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Proprietary

License

Qwen3.8 Max

Proprietary

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Proprietary

Release date

Qwen3.8 Max

2026-08-03

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

2026-07-19

If you are considering the documented upgrade path
Deployment change
Both entries list Alibaba as the provider. Confirm endpoint, model ID, limits, and feature support before switching.
Quality signal
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict.
Workload cost
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff
A complete documented context comparison is not available.

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence52 rows

Agentic

  • Terminal-Bench 2.1

    Qwen3.8 Max86.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • CoWorkBench

    Qwen3.8 Max74.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • JobBench

    Qwen3.8 Max53.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • skillsBench

    Qwen3.8 Max70.2%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • Agents' Last Exam

    Qwen3.8 Max52.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • AutomationBench

    Qwen3.8 Max27.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • Toolathlon-Verified

    Qwen3.8 Max72.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • WideResearch

    Qwen3.8 Max81.9%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • HLE w/ tools

    Qwen3.8 Max56.2%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • OSWorld-Verified

    Qwen3.8 Max86.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • OSWorld 2.0

    Qwen3.8 Max19.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • WebArena-Verified

    Qwen3.8 Max66.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • AndroidWorld

    Qwen3.8 Max85.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • MobileWorld

    Qwen3.8 Max77.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 2.1

    Qwen3.8 Max86.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • SWE-bench Pro

    Qwen3.8 Max67.7%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • deepSwe

    Qwen3.8 Max56.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • NL2Repo

    Qwen3.8 Max55.9%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • FrontierSWE

    Qwen3.8 Max73.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • MLS-Bench Lite

    Qwen3.8 Max41.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • PaperBench

    Qwen3.8 Max93.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

Reasoning

  • MRCRv2

    Qwen3.8 Max92.9%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • LongBench v2

    Qwen3.8 Max66.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

Knowledge

  • GPQA

    Qwen3.8 Max92.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • GPQA-D

    Qwen3.8 Max92.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • HLE

    Qwen3.8 Max43.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • HLE w/o tools

    Qwen3.8 Max43.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

Multimodal

  • MMMU-Pro

    Qwen3.8 Max82.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • MathVision

    Qwen3.8 Max95.2%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • MathVision w/ Python

    Qwen3.8 Max97.7%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • BabyVision

    Qwen3.8 Max82.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • BabyVision w/ Python

    Qwen3.8 Max91.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • ZeroBench

    Qwen3.8 Max24.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • ZeroBench w/ Python

    Qwen3.8 Max49.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • MedXpertQA (MM)

    Qwen3.8 Max80.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • ScreenSpot Pro

    Qwen3.8 Max84.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • Vision2Web

    Qwen3.8 Max69.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • CharXiv w/o tools

    Qwen3.8 Max88.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • CharXiv

    Qwen3.8 Max93.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • OmniDocBench 1.5

    Qwen3.8 Max92.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • OCRBench V2

    Qwen3.8 Max74.2%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • CC-OCR

    Qwen3.8 Max79.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • RealWorldQA

    Qwen3.8 Max88.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • ERQA

    Qwen3.8 Max77.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • SimpleVQA

    Qwen3.8 Max75.0%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • PerceptionBench

    Qwen3.8 Max63.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • Video-MME (with subtitle)

    Qwen3.8 Max90.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • VideoMMMU

    Qwen3.8 Max88.7%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • MMVU

    Qwen3.8 Max82.4%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • MLVU (M-Avg)

    Qwen3.8 Max90.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

  • LVBench

    Qwen3.8 Max81.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

Instruction following

  • IFBench

    Qwen3.8 Max82.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.8 Max Preview—

    Not directly comparable

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Qwen3.8 Max or Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3.8 Max or Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted coding basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a coding winner.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen3.8 Max or Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted agentic tasks basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a agentic tasks winner.

Which costs less, Qwen3.8 Max or Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3.8 Max or Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

A complete documented context-window comparison is not available.

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