Models / Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba (Tongyi/Qwen)
Qwen3.8-Max
Specs as of
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max, released 3 Aug 2026: 2.4 trillion total parameters, its listed output price, and where independent leaderboards place it.
Specifications
- Lab
- Alibaba (Tongyi/Qwen)
- Released
- 3 Aug 2026 (0902 snapshot released 2 Sep 2026)
- Parameters
- 2.4T total
- Context window
- n/d
- License
- Alibaba said at launch it would open-source the Max weights the following week, and Reuters reported it was preparing revenue-sharing terms for large commercial users; no open release of the Max weights is confirmed in CAD reporting. The smaller Qwen3.8-27B shipped separately under Apache 2.0 on 17 Aug 2026
- Pricing
- Listed at about 36 yuan per million output tokens at launch, roughly eighteen times DeepSeek’s rate at the time
The benchmark claim
Fourth on the Artificial Analysis global ranking as of 9 Aug 2026, behind Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Max in second, with Zhipu and DeepSeek seventh and eighth; Chinese coverage placed the 0902 snapshot first in the world on front-end codingindependent
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Sources
Alibaba launch announcement via TechNode; Reuters; Artificial Analysis; Qbit (量子位)
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