Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3.8 Flash Next: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8 Flash Next both come from Alibaba, and both were released in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Flash Next is the larger model at roughly 180 billion parameters, against 28 billion for Qwen3.8-27B.
The two models share 18 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads on 18 of them. The widest gaps are on Job Bench, where Qwen3.8 Flash Next scores 55.7% against 33.4%; DeepSWE 1.1, where Qwen3.8 Flash Next scores 58.7% against 42.2%. Averaged across everything we track, Qwen3.8-27B sits at 66.3% and Qwen3.8 Flash Next at 67.1%.
Qwen3.8 Flash Next is available through an API at $0.16 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Qwen3.8-27B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Qwen3.8-27B | Qwen3.8 Flash Next |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 14, 2026 | August 26, 2026 |
| Parameters | 28B | 180B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $0.16 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $0.47 |
| Average Score | 66.3% | 67.1% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Job Bench | 33.4% | 55.7% |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 42.2% | 58.7% |
| Agents' Last Exam | 42.9% | 51.2% |
| ERQA | 65.5% | 72.3% |
| NL2Repo | 42.3% | 48.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 30.8% | 35.9% |
| ClawEval-MM | 56.9% | 60.4% |
| CoWorkBench | 70.7% | 73.9% |
| RecreationBench | 47.1% | 49.9% |
| AndroidWorld | 81.9% | 84.5% |
| RealWorldQA | 85.9% | 88.5% |
| GPQA | 89.2% | 91.7% |
| IFBench | 79.5% | 81.3% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 90.3% | 91.9% |
| MathVision | 94.6% | 95.7% |
| Vision2Web | 62.9% | 64.0% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 61.7% | 62.5% |
| CharXiv-R | 90.2% | 90.6% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3.8-27B — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Flash Next — 0.7.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/14/2026 and 8/26/2026.
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The Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8 Flash Next comparison is updated for 2026. Data includes benchmark results, API pricing, context window size and other specifications. For more detailed information, visit the Qwen3.8-27B or Qwen3.8 Flash Next page. See also the complete list of AI model comparisons.