Rank #5 / 10
Qwen3.8-Max
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's Qwen model (proprietary). It is ranked 5 of 10 models on the Visual Intelligence Index.
- Alibaba
- Proprietary
- Qwen
- Video input
- Structured output
- Tool calling
- Streaming
- Batch API
Comparison Summary
Qwen3.8-Max ranks 5 of 10 on the perception index. Immediately ahead is Claude Fable 5.1. Immediately behind is Kimi K3. List price is $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output. 1 of 6 priced models cost less to prompt. The context window is 1M. Every score is from our own evaluation runs; list prices are as published by the provider. Strongest capability in this set is Causal Reasoning (78%). Weakest is Action / Event Understanding (72%).
- Visual Intelligence
- 73.8%
- Availability
- Proprietary
- Input / 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $6.00
- Context Window
- 1M
- Parameters
- 2T
All benchmark scores
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| Benchmark | Metric | Score | Coverage | Per-question results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video-MME v2 | Accuracy, no subtitles | 60.2% | 98.5% (3152/3200) | Eval Details |
| LVBench | Test accuracy | 58.9% | 70.82% (1097/1549) | Eval Details |
| Perception Test | Overall accuracy | 83.9% | Full (454/454) | Eval Details |
| NExT-QA | Accuracy (hard split) | 87.6% | 98.58% (4925/4996) | Eval Details |
| Q-Bench Video | Overall accuracy | 69.0% | 99.77% (866/868) | Eval Details |
| EgoSchema | Accuracy (fullset) | 85.2% | 99.4% (497/500) | Eval Details |
| UCF101-AD | Accuracy | 56.5% | 99.98% (4223/4224) | Eval Details |
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Usability
3.5/ 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
- 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
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% |