Alibaba's Qwen team ships open-weight models. Qwen3.8-Max (Aug 2026) is open-license at $2/$6 per 1M; its GA rate card supersedes the July preview discount.
Alibaba's Qwen team — organizationally Tongyi Lab, established 2022 — ships open-weight models, represented in the register by Qwen3.8-Max (August 2026) at an open license and $2 / $6 per 1M.
The pricing carries a caveat worth surfacing: the GA rate card supersedes a lower July preview discount, so figures quoted from the preview window understate current cost. Qwen3.8-Max sits in the open country without an independent index mark in this survey, so its standing rests on vendor and community signal rather than an Artificial Analysis number — a distinction the register holds to consistently.
Qwen's broader strength is range and adoption: the family spans a wide parameter spectrum and has become one of the most-derived open model lineages, though only the Max tier is surveyed here. For Volume 2, an independent mark would place it precisely against DeepSeek V4-Pro, currently the open country's benchmark.