Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen3.8-27B is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
- Workloads that can use a 1m context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Qwen3.8
- Released
- 2026-08-17
- Context
- 1m
- Max output
- 131,072
- Parameters
- 27B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS · cache read $0.050
About
Qwen3.8-27B is the Qwen3.8 generation's native vision-language dense model, building on Qwen3.6-27B with key improvements in coding and office productivity across text and visual modalities. It enables more reliable end-to-end completion of complex tasks with consistently trustworthy results. Apache 2.0 weights are on Hugging Face; the hosted qwen3.8-27b API supports 1M context, reasoning, function calling, tool use, structured outputs, and prompt caching.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ D2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | $0.500 | $3.00 | read $0.050 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(6)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 73.0 | Terminal Bench 2.1 (Terminus)Observed 2026-08-14 | Harness: Terminus | Source |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61.7 | SWE-bench ProObserved 2026-08-14 | — | Source |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 42.2 | DeepSWE 1.1Observed 2026-08-14 | — | Source |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 89.2 | GPQA DiamondObserved 2026-08-14 | — | Source |
| LiveCodeBench | 90.3 | LiveCodeBench v6Observed 2026-08-14 | — | Source |
| OSWorld-Verified | 84.3 | OSWorld-VerifiedObserved 2026-08-14 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
qwen3.8-27bRankings & picks(1)
Cheapest of 1 route · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS · cache read $0.050