North Micro Vision Instruct vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
North Micro Vision Instruct is developed by Cohere, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Both were released in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max is the larger model at roughly 2.4 trillion parameters, against 2 billion for North Micro Vision Instruct.
We have 19 benchmark results for North Micro Vision Instruct and 42 benchmark results for Qwen3.8 Max, but they overlap on a single test: RealWorldQA, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 88.0% against 62.2%.
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 North Micro Vision Instruct, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | North Micro Vision Instruct | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Cohere | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 12, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 2B | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 61.1% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| RealWorldQA | 62.2% | 88.0% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: North Micro Vision Instruct — 0.6, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/12/2026 and 8/2/2026.
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