Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 and Qwen3.8 Max both come from Alibaba, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 was released in July 2025, and Qwen3.8 Max followed 13 months later in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max is the larger model at roughly 2.4 trillion parameters, against 235 billion for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Max leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on Humanity's Last Exam, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 43.6% against 18.2%; GPQA, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 92.6% against 81.1%. Averaged across everything we track, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 sits at 69.2% and Qwen3.8 Max at 71.0%.
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is the cheaper API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, roughly 8 times cheaper than Qwen3.8 Max at $2.50 and $6.25. Qwen3.8 Max 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 Max accepts text and images.
| Characteristic | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Release Date | July 24, 2025 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 235B | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 256K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 33K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.00 | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 69.2% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 18.2% | 43.6% |
| GPQA | 81.1% | 92.6% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is 2.7x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $2.50/1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Max supports a larger context: 1M vs 256K tokens.
Qwen3.8 Max is newer: released 8/2/2026 vs 7/24/2025.
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