Compare Qwen3 8B 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 8BQwen3.8 MaxAchieves effective integration of thinking and non-thinking modes, enabling mode switching during conversations. Its reasoning ability reaches state-of-the-art (SOTA) levels among models of the same scale, and its general capability significantly surpasses Qwen2.5-7B.
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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Qwen3 8B: $0.8/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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Qwen3 8B at 61.7 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
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