Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Alibaba's open-weight 125B MoE with 6B active parameters, positioned as an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, with vision input, selectable reasoning effort, and publisher-reported coding and reasoning results.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is not in MiniRouter’s catalog. This article covers the publisher’s announcement. Browse available models for current API access.
About the model
- Architecture: 125B MoE · 6B active. Hybrid Gated DeltaNet and sparse attention, plus a 51B n-gram table
- Context: 262K native. Extensible to 1M with YaRN
- Weights: Released. Hugging Face; runs on vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, and MLX
- Reasoning effort: low / medium / xhigh. Thinking on by default; can be disabled per request
Publisher pricing
Pricing below comes from the linked publisher sources and does not represent a MiniRouter route or price.
Not published
The publisher announcement does not list an API price. MiniRouter does not estimate one.
Publisher-reported benchmarks
Results from the publisher’s announcement, grouped by unit.
| Benchmark | Reported result | Reported by | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 58.7 | Alibaba | Aug 26, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 62.5 | Alibaba | Aug 26, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.7 | Alibaba | Aug 26, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| SWE-Bench Multilingual | 81.0 | Alibaba | Aug 26, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| CoWorkBench | 73.9 | Alibaba | Aug 26, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| Agents' Last Exam | 51.2 | Alibaba | Aug 26, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.9 | Alibaba | Aug 26, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
Alibaba says training cost about one-ninth of Qwen3.7-Plus while delivering stronger coding and office-task results.
Alibaba publishes no API price for the open checkpoint; the routable price on MiniRouter is the live route rate.
Alibaba reports the benchmark figures; MiniRouter has not reproduced them.
Independent measurements
Artificial Analysis evaluations of the first-party API.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next ranks #19 of 462 model families on their Intelligence Index.
- Intelligence Index
- 39.8
- Composite of their evaluations
- Coding Index
- 73.1
- Coding evaluations only
- Blended price
- $0.23
- USD per 1M tokens, 3:1 input to output, first-party list
- Output speed
- 55
- Median tokens per second
- First answer token
- 38s
- Median seconds, including reasoning
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on Artificial Analysis ↗
Source: Artificial Analysis ↗, read Sep 21, 2026. Measured on the model's first-party API, not a MiniRouter route.
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Sources
- Read at Alibaba ↗
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next release notes
Published Aug 26, 2026
- Read at Artificial Analysis ↗
Artificial Analysis model page
Published Sep 21, 2026
Editorial reference revised 2026-10-07. Catalog status comes from the generated routing snapshot.