Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 vs Qwen3.8-27B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 and Qwen3.8-27B both come from Alibaba, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 was released in July 2025, and Qwen3.8-27B followed 13 months later in August 2026. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is the larger model at roughly 235 billion parameters, against 28 billion for Qwen3.8-27B.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8-27B leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on LiveCodeBench v6, where Qwen3.8-27B scores 90.3% against 74.1%; Humanity's Last Exam, where Qwen3.8-27B scores 30.8% against 18.2%. Averaged across everything we track, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 sits at 69.2% and Qwen3.8-27B at 66.3%.
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is available through an API at $0.30 per million input tokens with a 256K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Qwen3.8-27B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Qwen3.8-27B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Release Date | July 24, 2025 | August 14, 2026 |
| Parameters | 235B | 28B |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 256K | — |
| Context (output) | 33K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.00 | — |
| Average Score | 69.2% | 66.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 74.1% | 90.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 18.2% | 30.8% |
| GPQA | 81.1% | 89.2% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8-27B leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — 0.7, Qwen3.8-27B — 0.7.
Qwen3.8-27B is newer: released 8/14/2026 vs 7/24/2025.
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