Qwen3.8 Max Preview vs stepfun-ai/step3

Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

stepfun-ai/step3

StepFun · → text

Step3 is a multimodal reasoning model released by StepFun. It uses a Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) architecture with 321 billion total parameters and 38 billion activation parameters. The model follows an end‑to‑end design that reduces decoding cost while delivering top‑tier performance on vision‑language reasoning tasks. Thanks to the combined use of Multi‑Head Factorized Attention (MFA) and Attention‑FFN Decoupling (AFD), Step3 remains highly efficient on both flagship and low‑end accelerators. During pre‑training, it processed over 20 trillion text tokens and 4 trillion image‑text mixed tokens, covering more than ten languages. On benchmarks for mathematics, code, and multimodal tasks, Step3 consistently outperforms other open‑source models.