~2.4T MoE with multimodal input; multilingual and vision breadth are its edge.
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's open-license flagship — a mixture-of-experts around 2.4 trillion parameters with multimodal input, and its edge is breadth: strong multilingual coverage and vision, backed by Alibaba's serving scale. It carries a 1M-token context and accepts text, image, and video in.
The standing comes with caveats. Benchmark figures are vendor-reported, not independent, and at $2 / $6 per million tokens it is priced well above DeepSeek's open models — the GA rate card having superseded the more generous July preview discount. At full size it is also large to self-host.
For multilingual and multimodal applications where an open license matters, Qwen3.8-Max offers a breadth few open models match. Teams optimizing purely for open-weight cost or independently verified capability will still look first to the DeepSeek tier.
FIELD NOTE — Priced well above DeepSeek; GA rate card supersedes July preview discount.
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