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Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba’s flagship for hard reasoning, long-horizon coding and professional work (law, finance, design); 1M context, text/image/video in.

Model idqwen3.8-max

Price$2 in, $6 out per 1M tokens

Checked13 October 2026

No published training cutoff

At least1,604events since its release in August 2026

72 historic, 356 major. 74 days of news.

Alibaba (Qwen) doesn’t publish a training cutoff, so we count from its release date. The real gap is larger.

Five things it has never heard of

How to call it

6 ways to use Qwen3.8-Max, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Qwen3.8-Max
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, Singapore/Intl) qwen3.8-max https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1 alibabacloud.com
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (US Virginia) qwen3.8-max https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1 alibabacloud.com
OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 openrouter.ai
OpenRouter (open-weight base) qwen/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b openrouter.ai
Hugging Face huggingface.co
Web app chat.qwen.ai

Pricing

Prices for Qwen3.8-Max
Input$2 per 1M tokens
Output$6 per 1M tokens
Cache read$0.25 per 1M tokens

As published: “per 1M tokens (USD), Singapore/International region, input up to 1M; Beijing/Global regions 1.65/4.951”.

Source: alibabacloud.com, checked 13 October 2026.

Specs

Input
Text, images and video
Output
Text
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Open weights
Yes
Licence
qwen3.8-max (custom, for open weights Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B)
Training cutoff
Not published
Released
August 2026
Status
Current
Type
Reasoning model

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • First open-weight Qwen-Max-class model

    Qwen3.8 brings a Max-class model to open release for the first time (Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, 2.4T total / 95B active MoE); the API version adds vision input, non-thinking mode, 1M context and built-in tools.

    Source: huggingface.co

  • Multi-day autonomous coding

    Alibaba markets it as able to code autonomously for over ten days to deliver complete projects, with closed-loop planning and iteration.

    Source: alibabacloud.com

  • Native vision in the agent loop

    Image and video understanding used throughout planning, execution and verification; parses ultra-long documents and long videos.

    Source: alibabacloud.com

  • Tunable and preserved thinking

    reasoning_effort controls depth; preserve_thinking keeps reasoning context from earlier turns.

    Source: huggingface.co

Notes

Alibaba’s top model. Apsara 2026 (2026-09-22): Alibaba says an updated Qwen3.8-Max went through 33 automated self-improvement cycles, raising its Artificial Analysis score from 40 to 45 (company claim, https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/press-room/alibaba-unveils-roadmap-on-full-stack-ai-strategy). Snapshot qwen3.8-max-0902; fast tier qwen3.8-max-prime (OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime, Beijing 3.301/9.902). Singapore endpoint needs your WorkspaceId (old dashscope-intl domain is being migrated). Also sold via Qwen Cloud (qwencloud.com). Knowledge cutoff not published.

curl "https://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1/chat/completions" \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer $DASHSCOPE_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"model":"qwen3.8-max","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}],"enable_thinking":true}'

Sources: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-max · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing · https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

Not yet checked against an official source: Release day not verified (weights on HF 2026-08-08).