Alongside Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba is also open-sourcing a smaller sibling, Qwen3.8-27B, aimed at developers who want something they can run without a data center. Qwen 3.8 Max BenchmarksAlibaba’s release includes comparisons against Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Fable 5, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol running at max reasoning, and its own predecessor, Qwen3.7-Max, across three groups of tests: coding agents, general agent work, and general capabilities. On coding, the picture is mixed but shows Qwen 3.8 Max is competitive with both GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable 5. The general agent category, which covers multi-step office and workspace tasks, is where Qwen3.8-Max looks strongest relative to GPT-5.6 Sol. That places it well below GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on a per-token basis, continuing the pattern where Chinese labs undercut US frontier pricing even as they close the capability gap.