{"data":{"schema_version":"model_decision_evidence.v1","snapshot_date":"2026-09-25","model":{"model":"qwen3.8-max-0902","direct_answer":"Qwen3.8-Max-0902 is the upgraded 2026-09-02 snapshot of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max API model, with the same 1,000,000-token context window, 131,072 output tokens and text, image and video input, and thinking on by default. On AI Coding Daily's coding leaderboard it scored 48.70, above the original qwen3.8-max, and kzhu's test gave it 46–47/60 with weak SVG animations.","verified_at":"2026-09-24","model_card":{"context_window":"1,000,000 tokens (991,808 input; 983,616 in thinking mode)","max_output":"131,072 tokens in both modes; the chain of thought is capped separately at 262,144","modalities":"Text, image and video input; text output","parameter_count":"Not stated for the snapshot; Qwen3.8-Max is 2.4T total, 95B active"},"official_sources":[{"title":"qwen3.8-max Model Info (snapshot qwen3.8-max-0902)","publisher":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio","url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-max","retrieved_at":"2026-09-24"},{"title":"Model lifecycle and updates","publisher":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio","url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models","retrieved_at":"2026-09-24"},{"title":"Qwen3.8-Max-0902","publisher":"QwenCloud","url":"https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8-max-0902","retrieved_at":"2026-09-24"}],"open_weights":{"status":"not_available","summary":"No weights are published for the 0902 snapshot. Qwen's model card calls Qwen3.8-Max the official version based on Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, whose weights are open under the Qwen3.8-Max License; that checkpoint is text-only and always thinks, and the licence requires a separate licence before commercial use by model-as-a-service or AI work-assistant businesses with revenue above US$50 million over 12 months (relaying requests to models hosted by others is excluded).","repository":"","licence":"Proprietary hosted model","hardware":"Not applicable","recommended_runtime":"ChinaAPI or Alibaba Cloud Model Studio","source_urls":["https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-max","https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B"],"verified_at":"2026-09-24","agent_recipe":""},"curated_comparisons":["qwen3.8-max"],"open_weight_alternatives":["glm-5.3","hy4-preview"],"reviews":[{"id":"aicodingdaily-llm-coding-leaderboard-2026-09","platform":"Independent benchmark","evidence_type":"independent_suite","title":"AI Coding Daily LLM Coding Leaderboard","url":"https://aicodingdaily.com/leaderboard","published_at":"2026-09-24","retrieved_at":"2026-09-24","verified_at":"2026-09-24","author":{"name":"AI Coding Daily","handle":"@AICodingDaily","profile_url":"https://www.youtube.com/@AICodingDaily","description":"Coding-model testing channel and website that runs its own leaderboard and sells premium tutorials and channel advertising"},"task":"Implement and harden production-shaped projects in several stacks, including a Laravel app, a Go service and a React/TypeScript app, from the same prompts","method":"Each model and reasoning setting is a separate row run in a coding harness, with the average cost and time per run. Code quality is graded by a judge model against a published 100-point rubric and scaled to 20 points per project; behavioural reliability runs each of four projects five times and scores the checks every attempt fails.","finding":"Qwen 3.8 Max (0902) at high reasoning scored 48.70 ($0.40 and 11 min 49 s per run in OpenCode), 22nd of 47 rows and above the original qwen3.8-max (47.08).","limitation":"One author's benchmark whose code-quality half is graded by a judge model; rows run in different harnesses, the page is updated as models are added (read on 2026-09-24, 47 rows), and the author sells premium tutorials and advertising.","metrics":[{"label":"Points (high)","value":"48.70"},{"label":"Rank","value":"22 of 47"}]},{"id":"techgogogo-kzhu-llm-benchmark-2026-09","platform":"Independent benchmark","evidence_type":"independent_suite","title":"kzhu's six-question LLM test leaderboard","url":"https://www.techgogogo.com/llm-benchmark/","published_at":"2026-09-24","retrieved_at":"2026-09-24","verified_at":"2026-09-24","author":{"name":"AI产品狙击手 kzhu","handle":"@kevinzhu9305","profile_url":"https://www.youtube.com/@kevinzhu9305","description":"Chinese YouTube reviewer who scores models on a six-question test and publishes every score with per-question notes"},"task":"Six questions scored out of 10: constrained sentence writing, two reasoning puzzles (replaced by pelican and compound-bow SVG animations in version 2.2), a browser OS with a space shooter, a 3D racing game and a Trello-style board","method":"Each row names the harness the model ran in (Pi, Claude Code, WorkBuddy and others) and the date; the author scores every question with a note, and warns that totals are only comparable within one test version.","finding":"Qwen3.8 Max 0902 scored 47/60 on version 2.1 in the DeepSeek harness and 46 in Pi after re-running only the two new version-2.2 SVG questions, where the pelican flipped upside down and the bow pointed the wrong way (6 and 5).","limitation":"One author's scores on six questions; rows use different harnesses and test versions (2.1 or 2.2), and a few rows' table total differs by one point from the author's note.","metrics":[{"label":"Score","value":"47 / 60 (v2.1)"}]}]},"sources":{"aa_gdpval":{"id":"aa_gdpval","name":"Artificial Analysis · GDPval-AA v2.1","operator":"Artificial Analysis","metric":"Agentic Real-World Work Tasks, (Elo-500)/2000 (%)","url":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models","edition":"GDPval-AA v2.1, live board, read 2026-09-22. 220 agentic task-completion tasks with file outputs, ranked pairwise by a panel of three frontier LLM judges; since v2.1 the Elo scale is anchored to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) at 1600 and fitted with a Crowd-BT model, so its figures are not comparable with the v2 figures this page quoted from its 2026-09-12 read. The column prints clamp((Elo-500)/2000). It carries 10% of the Agents category inside Intelligence Index v4.3.2, so this column is a component of the AA Intelligence Index shown as an individual source, not an independent operator. Rows Artificial Analysis marks deprecated are read with the leaderboard's Status filter set to All (CA-948). 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The leaderboard's default Status: Current filter hides rows Artificial Analysis marks deprecated; they still render with Status set to All and are re-read from that view like any other row (CA-948). A trailing * is reproduced as the board prints it: the board's data marks that score as estimated (intelligenceIndexIsEstimated), i.e. not every evaluation in the index had been run for that model","retrieved_at":"2026-09-22"},"aa_mlcr":{"id":"aa_mlcr","name":"Artificial Analysis · MLCR-AA","operator":"Artificial Analysis","metric":"Medical Long Context Reasoning (%)","url":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mlcr-aa","edition":"MLCR-AA, live board, read 2026-09-22. Artificial Analysis marks it a standalone evaluation that is NOT part of Intelligence Index v4.3 — unlike the GDPval-AA v2 and Terminal-Bench v4.0 columns, this one is not a component of the AA Intelligence Index shown as an individual source, only the same operator. The underlying benchmark is Wisedocs' open MLCR (Wisedocs-AI/medical-long-context-reasoning): synthetic medical records of roughly 25,000-64,000 tokens, graded across six tiers from locating a single fact to expert-level clinical synthesis. It measures multi-document reasoning over long records, not medical capability in general. The main leaderboard carries no column for it; the figures were first read off the evaluation page's chart (2026-09-07) and since 2026-09-22 from the per-model pages' payload, which carries every model the chart can show (CA-956)","retrieved_at":"2026-09-22","scene":"medical"},"aa_speed":{"id":"aa_speed","name":"Artificial Analysis · Output Speed","operator":"Artificial Analysis","metric":"Median output tokens/s","url":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models","edition":"live board; measured by Artificial Analysis against the vendor's own API, not through ChinaAPI. Rows Artificial Analysis marks deprecated are read with the leaderboard's Status filter set to All (CA-948)","retrieved_at":"2026-09-22","scene":"speed"},"aa_tbench_v40":{"id":"aa_tbench_v40","name":"Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench v4.0","operator":"Artificial Analysis","metric":"Agentic Coding \u0026 Terminal Use (%)","url":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models","edition":"Terminal-Bench 4.0 (66 tasks), run by Artificial Analysis with the mini-swe-agent harness, pass@1 averaged over 3 repeats per task; read 2026-09-22. When this column replaced the benchmark's own board on 2026-09-07 the methodology page named the harness as mini-SWE-agent v2.4.6; on 2026-09-21 it and the evaluation page name mini-swe-agent without a version, and every figure quoted before then read back unchanged. One harness for every model, so the column compares models rather than model-plus-best-scaffold — which is why it replaced the benchmark's own board, whose rows are agent × model and covered one Chinese model out of 34 (CA-788, overturning CA-734). It carries 10% of the Coding category inside Intelligence Index v4.3.2, so this column is a component of the AA Intelligence Index shown as an individual source, not an independent operator. Rows Artificial Analysis marks deprecated are read with the leaderboard's Status filter set to All (CA-948). 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