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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-06.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score88.683.0
Input Price$2.00/M$0.42/M
Output Price$6.00/M$3.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output131,072131,072
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index77.468.3
ai_index_agentic82.377.1
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
SQL Generation 171 169
Code Review 165 163
Code Completion 119 132
Code Refactoring 163 161
Bug Fixing 180 177
Unit Test Generation 153 152
Regex Writing 135 134
CI/CD Pipelines 144 142
Frontend Component Design 146 144
Data Analysis 170 168
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 153
ETL Scripting 153 152
JSON Extraction 139 148
Bulk Data Labeling 125 134
OCR / Document Parsing 146 146
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 146
Long-Document Summarization 158 157
Short-Form Summarization 122 131
Blog Post Writing 139 138

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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