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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-05.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-65.2
Input Price$2.00/M$0.29/M
Output Price$6.00/M$2.40/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output131,072131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-61.1
ai_index_agentic-44.6
ai_index_coding-88.6

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxQwen: Qwen3.6 27B
SQL Generation 133 159
Code Review 132 152
Code Completion 118 129
Code Refactoring 136 148
Bug Fixing 136 162
Unit Test Generation 124 144
Code Documentation 130 134
Regex Writing 118 131
CI/CD Pipelines 120 135
Frontend Component Design 122 140
Data Analysis 124 158
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 145
ETL Scripting 128 142
JSON Extraction 122 146
Bulk Data Labeling 119 134
OCR / Document Parsing 131 141
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 141
Long-Document Summarization 137 145
Short-Form Summarization 114 129
Blog Post Writing 121 132

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

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