Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 vs Qwen3.8 Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 and Qwen3.8 Flash both come from Alibaba, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 was released in July 2025, and Qwen3.8 Flash followed 13 months later in August 2026. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is the larger model at roughly 235 billion parameters, against 125 billion for Qwen3.8 Flash.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Flash leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on LiveCodeBench v6, where Qwen3.8 Flash scores 91.9% against 74.1%; Humanity's Last Exam, where Qwen3.8 Flash scores 35.9% against 18.2%. Averaged across everything we track, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 sits at 69.2% and Qwen3.8 Flash at 68.5%.
Qwen3.8 Flash is the cheaper API at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, roughly 2 times cheaper than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 at $0.30 and $3. Qwen3.8 Flash takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 256K for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 accepts text as input, while Qwen3.8 Flash accepts text, images, and video. On tooling, only Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 supports function calling and only Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Qwen3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Release Date | July 24, 2025 | August 26, 2026 |
| Parameters | 235B | 125B |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 256K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 33K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | $0.15 |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.00 | $0.47 |
| Average Score | 69.2% | 68.5% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 74.1% | 91.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 18.2% | 35.9% |
| GPQA | 81.1% | 91.7% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Flash — 0.7.
Qwen3.8 Flash is 5.3x cheaper: input $0.15/1M vs $0.30/1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 256K tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash is newer: released 8/26/2026 vs 7/24/2025.
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