Qwen3.8 Max is getting open-sourced tomorrow and before it does I want to state my opinion on the model after rigorous use. Although I am a Qwen ambassador this is my full real opinion. The model from my experiences acts more like Opus than it does Sol, it's less programmatic and has more a expressive personality. On lower thinking modes (low, medium) this expressive-ness is very clear, it's more opinionated, moody, and definitely more likely to make irreversible mistakes. Qwen3.8 has been my daily driver for a couple weeks now and I want to say the output in omp is some of the best I've ever got, Qwen3.8 + OMP > GPT-5.6 Sol + Codex, this is a hard truth to straddle as I send hundreds of dollars/month to OpenAI for codex, but it's ability to hold this harness by the neck and work like a dog is truly unbelievable. it orchestrates sub-agents really well, and although a (very large) token burner it never disappoints. However, it still falls far behind in real-world developer experiences and definitely behind Sol/Fable in "out of the box" thinking. This thing is the biggest work horse model I've ever tested and can be set on a task to run for days without any interruptions (they really didn't lie there), to the point where it can spend hours doing extremely deep research on a indirect task. Also, dont use xhigh thinking, waste of tokens.

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Qwen3.8 Max by @Alibaba_Qwen is live on OpenRouter. The new flagship has 2.4T parameters (95B active) and is built for long-horizon coding, research, and multimodal agent work. Open weights are due next week, a first for a Qwen Max-class model.

Qwen 3.8 Max usage limits are BRUTAL. Four prompts. That is all it took to max out my 5 hour quota. 100% used. My weekly is already at 31.2%. Four prompts is a third of my week. Two weeks ago I posted that Qwen had the best limits I had ever seen. Dozens of subagents barely moved the meter. That was Qwen 3.8 PREVIEW. Qwen 3.8 Max is good. Best model they have ever shipped, gated behind the worst usage I have hit this year. Great model. You just cannot use it.

Qwen 3.8 Max is here and it beats Fable 5. 86.6 on TerminalBench vs Fable 5 at 84.6. GPT 5.6 still holds the top at 88.8, so it is not a clean sweep. But at $2/$6 per million tokens, the value is absurd. The real headline: open weights next week. 2.4T Max going open, plus a 27B model that runs on a laptop. Frontier intelligence, downloadable, in seven days. Anthropic and OpenAI should be nervous.