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🇨🇳 China generalistReleased August 2026

Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba
Verdict

A versatile model, balanced across most use cases.

Overview

Qwen3.8-Max is a massive MoE model (2.4T parameters, 95B active) with a one-million-token context window, aimed at coding, agentic workflows and multimodal tasks. Alibaba has announced open weights for the week of August 10, but for now only API access exists, with no independent benchmarks to back the claims. For European teams concerned about data sovereignty, running everything through Alibaba Cloud with no on-premise option remains a real constraint until the weights actually ship.

Skill profile

Arena Elo1482

Not disclosed

Three independent measures

What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.

Preference
Which answer do people prefer, blind?
1482Elo
Sensitive to answer style and length.
Capability
What can the model do on measured tasks?
45.4/ 100
Aggregates ten evaluations run by Artificial Analysis.
Adoption
What does the market actually use?
0 %
#40 on OpenRouter, 30 days
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 19 Oct 2026. CC BY 4.0
OpenRouter traffic only: measures adoption, not quality, and misses direct use of vendor APIs.

Strengths

  • World-class on Arena
  • Very long context

Limitations

  • No documented EU residency

Who is it for

A good fit if…
    Skip it if…
    • you handle sensitive data with no EU option

    Ideal use cases

    • Long-document analysis
    • Complex agent automation
    • Multi-file code generation
    • Text-image multimodal tasks

    Access & availability

    Paid API per token

    Key specifications

    Context
    1M
    Input price
    $2.00/M
    Output price
    $6.00/M
    Speed
    —
    Price verified Sep 4, 2026·Official source ↗Benchmarks not audited

    What it costs per month

    Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

    Via API
    $60.0 / month
    ≈ 55.2 € · 20.0 M tokens
    Self-hosted
    Closed weights: no self-hosting

    Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

    nAIvigate Trust Index

    59/100

    What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

    18/20 criteria documented · 90 %

    Data50
    5/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty33
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency50
    3/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise83
    5/6 · 20 %
    Licence85
    2/2 · 15 %
    See the criteria▾
    Data
    EU data residency
    No transfer outside EU50
    No training on your data
    Configurable retention
    Zero Data Retention
    Sovereignty
    Self-hostable (open weights)
    EU hosting offered
    European vendorcountry: CN
    Transparency
    Published licence (URL)
    Public, sourced pricing
    Published compliance commitments
    Subprocessor list publishednot documented
    Enterprise
    DPA available
    SSO / SAML
    SCIM provisioningnot documented
    Audit logs
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001
    Vendor private endpoint
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typeproprietary70
    Full ranking and methodology

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    Data & compliance

    What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.

    EU data residencyYes
    Data processing agreement (DPA)Yes
    Transfer outside the EUDepends on plan
    Training on your dataNo
    Configurable retentionNo
    Zero Data RetentionNo
    Self-hostableNo
    Declared hostingCN/SG/EU

    Quality of this card’s data

    75/100

    This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

    5/6 documented · 3/6 primary sources

    API pricingofficial
    Context windownAIvigate assessment
    Arena EloLMArena, human preferenceindependent
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceofficial
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
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    Architecture
    MoE
    Size
    —
    Cutoff date
    —
    Inputs
    text, image, video
    Outputs
    text
    License
    proprietary
    Hosting
    CN/SG/EU
    Hallucination score
    —
    Estimated cost (API)
    Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
    ≈ $0.0120
    1M in + 1M out
    ≈ $8.00
    All benchmarks
    Arena Elo1482
    MMLU—
    GPQA—
    HumanEval—
    SWE-Bench—
    MATH—

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