Qwen3.8 Max vs Union Alpha (free)

Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen · text, image, video → text

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.

Union Alpha (free)

Stealth · text, image → text

Developed by Stealth, Union Alpha is a multimodal model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows. It delivers frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks. Featuring a massive 262,144 token context window, this model is highly capable of handling extensive and complex tasks.