Qwen3.8-27b is an Alibaba-released dense vision-language model with open-source weights. Qwen3.8 was developed based on the architecture of Qwen3.5, achieving significant improvements in encoding capability, handling professional tasks, research tasks, and tasks that require long-term completion. Qwen3.8-27B integrates these advantages into a compact, easy-to-deploy dense model — a native vision-language model capable of understanding image and video information and featuring flexible cognitive control capabilities. This model can more reliably accomplish complex, multi-step tasks.
Qwen 3.8 27B vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Qwen 3.8 27B from Qwen and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Qwen 3.8 27B, Qwen3.8 Max?
Qwen 3.8 27B: $1.65/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
Qwen 3.8 27B: 1.0s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
Qwen 3.8 27B accepts 131,072 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Qwen 3.8 27B at 620.8 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 24.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Qwen 3.8 27B accepts text, image and video input; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call Qwen 3.8 27B and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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