Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3.8-Max

Qwen3.8-Max leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 5.3 points, and Qwen3.8-27B scores higher on 1 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

Model

Compared with

At a glance

Measure	Qwen3.8-27B	Qwen3.8-Max
Visual Intelligence Index	68.5%	73.8%
Rank	#6 of 9	#4 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.	—	$0.151
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.	32.0s	66.0s
Tokens per task	25,009	68,932
Input / 1M tokens	—	$2.00
Output / 1M tokens	—	$6.00
Context window	256K	1M
Availability	Open weights	Proprietary

Each capability index is a weighted mean of the benchmarks that contribute to the capability.

Capability	Qwen3.8-27B	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Perception	67.8%	72.0%	−4.2
Spatial Reasoning	68.6%	74.3%	−5.6
Temporal Reasoning	68.4%	73.6%	−5.1
Action / Event Understanding	65.2%	71.5%	−6.4
Causal Reasoning	72.3%	78.2%	−5.9
Information Retrieval	67.0%	72.0%	−5.0

Benchmark	Qwen3.8-27B	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Video-MME v2	50.5%	60.2%	−9.7
LVBench	64.6%	58.9%	+5.7
Perception Test	72.3%	83.9%	−11.7
NExT-QA	82.2%	87.6%	−5.4
Q-Bench Video	67.9%	69.0%	−1.2
EgoSchema	79.1%	85.2%	−6.1
UCF101-AD	45.5%	56.5%	−11.0

4.5/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable1.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — supported
Self-hostable — supported
Multimodal input1.0: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable0.5: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — not supported

3.5/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable0.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — not supported
Self-hostable — not supported
Multimodal input0.5: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — not supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — supported