Qwen3.8 Max

Name: Qwen3.8 Max
Author: Alibaba

Multimodal

Alibaba

Qwen3.8 Max is Qwen's 2.4T-parameter multimodal flagship released in August 2026. It is a state-of-the-art performer on research replication (PaperBench 0.93) and long-context retrieval (MRCR v2 8-needle 0.93). It is served by DeepInfra, Fireworks, Novita and Together.

Key Specifications

Parameters

2.4T

Context

1.0M

Release Date

August 2, 2026

Average Score

93.0%

API Documentation Research Paper Results Blog

Timeline

Key dates in the model's history

Announcement

August 2, 2026

Last Update

August 27, 2026

Technical Specifications

Parameters

2.4T

Training Tokens

Knowledge Cutoff

Family

Capabilities

MultimodalZeroEval

Pricing & Availability

Input (per 1M tokens)

$2.50

Output (per 1M tokens)

$6.25

Max Input Tokens

1.0M

Max Output Tokens

131.1K

Supported Features

Function CallingStructured OutputCode ExecutionWeb SearchBatch InferenceFine-tuning

Benchmark Results

Model performance metrics across various tests and benchmarks

Other Tests

Specialized benchmarks

PaperBench

BasicAgent Code-Dev, average of 3 runs • Self-reported

93.0%

MRCR v2 (8-needle)

256K context; 8 needles • Self-reported

93.0%

License & Metadata

License

proprietary

Announcement Date

August 2, 2026

Last Updated

August 27, 2026

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