Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights
A blog post reviews the Qwen 3.8 27B model, calling it excellent while noting it defaults to overthinking. The item is a community discussion link on Hacker News.
First seen 12 Aug, 16:21 UTC on OpenRouter6 sourcesLast update 64d ago
AlibabaLaunch · 13 Aug
Qwen3.8 27B
Open-weight model
$0.42 / $2.55per M tokens, in / out
262Kcontext
Openweights
How Qwen3.8 27B compares
List prices per million tokens, context and Arena's text leaderboard, against Alibaba's other top models and the leading labs' best. The percentages are Qwen3.8 27B's price against each.
| Model | Released | Input | Output | Context | Arena |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | August 2026 | $0.42 | $2.55 | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Qwen3.8 Max | September 2026 | $2.00 -79% | $6.00 -58% | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Qwen3.8 Flash | August 2026 | $0.15 +180% | $0.47 +443% | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | September 2026 | $4.00 -89% | $20.00 -87% | 1M | #2 1507 |
| GPT-6 Astra | September 2026 | $10.00 -96% | $50.00 -95% | 1.05M | #30 1475 |
| Gemini 4 Argon | October 2026 | $2.00 -79% | $10.00 -74% | 1M | #1 1525 |
Arena ranks the best effort setting of each model among all models on its text leaderboard. Every model and price.
What the sources say
Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.
How it unfolded
Every source in the order it appeared. Times in UTC.
12 Aug 16:21OpenRouter Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B listed on OpenRouter13 Aug 08:01Hugging Face · Qwen Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 published on Hugging Face14 Aug 15:00Hacker News Qwen 3.8 27B14 Aug 15:55OpenRouter Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B listed on OpenRouter14 Aug 17:01The Decoder Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license16 Aug 23:45Hacker News Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
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