# Qwen3.8 Max vs Sage-A1.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.8 Max and Sage-A1.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-8-max-vs-sage-a1-5
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Qwen3.8 Max and Sage-A1.5 share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Sage-A1.5 has the lower published output-token price.
- Qwen3.8 Max has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | InternScience |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 69.73 | 62.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 66 | 12 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.4 (Supported · #14/132)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 57.7 (Estimated · #36/132)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 52.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 27.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 81.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 56.2% | 55.1% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| OSWorld-Verified | 86.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 19.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | 36.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | 70.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | 0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GAIA | Coming soon | 95.1% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 45.4% | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 53.4 (Supported · #38/153)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 54 (Estimated · #34/153)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 67.7% | 61.2% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| DeepSWE | 56.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 55.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | 41.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 15.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | 25.7 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 80.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 20.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 91.2 (#4/55)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 95.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | 97.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 82.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 24.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 49.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 84.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | 69.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 88.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 93.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 88.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 75.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 63.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 88.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 82.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.1 (Supported · #25/187)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 43.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierScience Research | Coming soon | 48.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 94.7 (#2/152)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 91.9 (#22/152)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.8% | 81.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 78.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 74.737% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 46.341% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Qwen3.8 Max and Sage-A1.5?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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