Atria Dawn Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Qwen3.8 Max was released in August 2026, and Atria Dawn Preview followed a month later in September 2026. Qwen3.8 Max is the larger model at roughly 2.4 trillion parameters, against 744 billion for Atria Dawn Preview.
The two models share 5 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Max leads on 3 of them, Atria Dawn Preview on 1. The widest gaps are on AutomationBench, where Atria Dawn Preview scores 53.8% against 27.3%; Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 86.6% against 78.3%. Averaged across everything we track, Atria Dawn Preview sits at 72.7% and Qwen3.8 Max at 71.0%.
Qwen3.8 Max is available through an API at $2.50 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Atria Dawn Preview, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Atria Dawn Preview | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Shanghai AI Laboratory | Alibaba |
| Release Date | September 11, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 744B | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 72.7% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| AutomationBench | 53.8% | 27.3% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | 86.6% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 59.6% | 67.7% |
| SkillsBench | 66.4% | 70.2% |
| WideSearch | 81.9% | 81.9% |
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Verdict
Atria Dawn Preview leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Atria Dawn Preview — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Atria Dawn Preview is newer: released 9/11/2026 vs 8/2/2026.
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