Rank #7 / 10
Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen3.8-27B is Alibaba's Qwen model (open weights). It is ranked 7 of 10 models on the Visual Intelligence Index.
- Alibaba
- Open weights
- Qwen
- Video input
- Audio
- Structured output
- Tool calling
- Streaming
- Self-hostable
Comparison Summary
Qwen3.8-27B ranks 7 of 10 on the perception index. Immediately ahead is Kimi K3. Immediately behind is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B. Weights are open and the model runs on your own hardware, so there is no provider list price to quote. The context window is 262K. Every score is from our own evaluation runs; list prices are as published by the provider. Strongest capability in this set is Causal Reasoning (72%). Weakest is Action / Event Understanding (65%).
- Visual Intelligence
- 68.5%
- Availability
- Open weights
- Input / 1M tokens
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- Output / 1M tokens
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- Context Window
- 262K
- Parameters
- 27B
All benchmark scores
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| Benchmark | Metric | Score | Coverage | Per-question results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video-MME v2 | Accuracy, no subtitles | 50.5% | Full (3200/3200) | Eval Details |
| LVBench | Test accuracy | 64.6% | Full (1549/1549) | Eval Details |
| Perception Test | Overall accuracy | 72.3% | Full (454/454) | Eval Details |
| NExT-QA | Accuracy (hard split) | 82.2% | Full (4996/4996) | Eval Details |
| Q-Bench Video | Overall accuracy | 67.9% | Full (868/868) | Eval Details |
| EgoSchema | Accuracy (fullset) | 79.1% | Full (500/500) | Eval Details |
| UCF101-AD | Accuracy | 45.5% | Full (4224/4224) | Eval Details |
Benchmark Scores
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Usability
4.5/ 5
What it's like to use this model for real video tasks.
- 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
Other Alibaba models
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| Date | Model | Visual Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 2026 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | 65.7% |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Qwen3.8-27B | 68.5% |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Qwen3.8-Max | 73.8% |