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Qwen 3.8 Max

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Live - flagship since Aug 1; 2.4T tier listed Aug 12. On the board as live since 2026-08-01 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.

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Timeline

2026-08-03

Qwen3.8-Max quietly lost its preview label — Alibaba is now serving it as the flagshippost

Alibaba is serving Qwen3.8-Max on chat.qwen.ai under the plain id `qwen3.8-max`. The preview suffix is gone.

2026-08-01

Qwen 3.8 Max verified live — detected in a live catalog, alert fired at 03:53:14 UTCverified

2026-07-19

Qwen 3.8 Max preview is live — 2.4T params, open weights promisedconfirmed

On the bench index

LMArena: 1,676LiveBench: 78.5SimpleBench: 62.5Vals AI: 59Artificial Analysis: 33.6AW Index: 56.5

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Coding leaderboard

#14 of 40 on the coding index, at 62.9 · combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding, Vals Vibe Code Bench

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The official word

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Where to use Qwen 3.8 Max

75 providers list Qwen 3.8 Max in the models.dev catalog (as of 2026-10-27), under the model ids shown below.

Alibabaqwen3.8-max

Alibaba (China)qwen3.8-max

OpenRouterqwen/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b · qwen/qwen3.8-27b · qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902

Vercel AI Gatewayalibaba/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b · alibaba/qwen3.8-27b · alibaba/qwen3.8-max

302.AIqwen3.8-max

Abacusqwen3.8-max

above.devqwen3.8-max

AI/ML APIalibaba/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b · alibaba/qwen3.8-27b · alibaba/qwen3.8-max

ai&qwen/qwen3.8-27b

AIHubMixqwen3.8-2.4t-a95b · qwen3.8-max · qwen3.8-max-free

AKI.IOqwen3.8-27b

Alibaba Token Planqwen3.8-max

Also listed by Alibaba Token Plan (China), Ambient, AMD, Berget.AI, Blue Claw, Cerebras, Charm Hyper, Chutes, ClinePass, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Cloudflare Workers AI, CommandCode, CoreWeave, Cortecs, CrossModel, Deep Infra, DevPass (LLM Gateway), DigitalOcean, Eden AI, EmpirioLabs AI, engy, evroc, Fireworks AI, GMI Cloud, Groq, Hetzner, Hugging Face, IteraCompute, Kenari, Kilo Gateway, Kosmik Compute, LLM Gateway, LLM Tech, Merge Gateway, Modal, Munito AI, Munito AI (EU), NanoGPT, NEAR AI Cloud, Nebius Token Factory, Neuralwatt, Novita AI, Ofox, OpenCode, OpenCode Go, Opper, OrcaRouter, OVHcloud AI Endpoints, Prime Inference, Regolo AI, Requesty, RunInfra, Scaleway, SCNet Token Plan, SCX.ai, SiliconFlow, Standard Compute, Tempr Gateway, TensorX, Thinking Machines, Vancine, Venice AI, Vultr.

Listings cover the model family, so a provider may list a sibling tier under the same name. Check the id before you build on it.

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Qwen 3.8 Max: quick answers

Is Qwen 3.8 Max out?

Yes. Qwen 3.8 Max is live and has been since August 1, 2026.

When was Qwen 3.8 Max released?

August 1, 2026.

Is Qwen 3.8 Max good for coding?

On the ArtificialWatch coding index it scores 62.9, #14 of 40 ranked models. The index combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding and Vals Vibe Code Bench, taking the median of each model's percentile across them.

Who makes Qwen 3.8 Max?

Alibaba. ArtificialWatch also tracks Qwen 3.8 Flash, Wan 3.0, Qwen 3.9 Flash, Qwen 3.9 Max and Qwen 4 Max from Alibaba.

Where can I use Qwen 3.8 Max?

75 providers list it in the models.dev catalog, including Alibaba, Alibaba (China), OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway and 302.AI. The exact model ids each one lists are on this page.

How much does Qwen 3.8 Max cost?

Alibaba's own API lists Qwen 3.8 Max (qwen3.8-max) at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, and $0.25 per million cached input tokens. Prices as published in the models.dev catalog, as of 2026-10-27.