LLM Reference

Qwen3.8-Max-0902

Released
2026-09-02
Last refreshed
2026-09-02
Status
Researched today
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool useAgentCoding

Qwen3.8-Max-0902 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
Specifications
Family
Qwen3.8
Released
2026-09-02
Context
1m
Max output
131,072
Parameters
2.4T
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$6.00
Input / 1M
$2.00

Cheapest of 1 route · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS · cache read $0.170

About

Qwen3.8-Max-0902 is Alibaba's dated API snapshot of Qwen3.8-Max, listed September 2, 2026 on QwenCloud and Model Studio as model ID qwen3.8-max-0902 (first-party alias qwen3.8-max-2026-09-02). Official copy: an upgraded snapshot of qwen3.8-max with stronger coding (engineering-scale / long-horizon autonomous development), collaborative-agent multi-tool orchestration, and refined native vision (chart reasoning, document parsing, multimodal perception). Retains the 1,000,000-token context window, thinking mode, and full tool ecosystem. Input image/text/video, output text; function calling, structured outputs, context cache. International QwenCloud / Model Studio Singapore list price $2 input / $6 output per 1M tokens; implicit cache $0.25; explicit cache create $2.50; explicit cache read $0.17.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

Included by capability and metadata signals 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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS$2.00$6.00read $0.170
Serverless

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsPrompt Caching

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

qwen3.8-max-0902qwen3.8-max-2026-09-02