Alibaba

Qwen3.8-27B

Qwen3.8-27B is an open-weight model from Alibaba, released Aug 14, 2026. It ranks #76 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1440. It costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.

LMArena text1440+1 in 30 days
Rank#76/351
95% interval1435–1445
Votes26.2K
Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Aug 14, 2026
Context window
1M
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.20 / $2.50
Weights
Open · Apache 2.0
Inputs
Text, Images, Video
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
7.9M
Hugging Face likes
18.3K
Qwen3.8-27B, LMArena text rating over time
14201428143514431450Aug 21Sep 5Sep 21Oct 6Oct 22
LatestQwen3.8-27B 1440

The rating LMArena published at each update since Aug 21, 2026. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
SWE-benchCoding86.00%15 / 85$1.08
Vibe Code BenchCoding64.85%48 / 115$23.46
LiveCodeBenchCoding84.00%43 / 143$0.5 / $3
Tax Agent BenchFinance30.89%27 / 76$0.82
Legal Research BenchLaw36.06%44 / 85$2.16
MedCodeMedicine28.70%99 / 107$0.5 / $3
GPQA DiamondReasoning88.89%33 / 138$0.5 / $3
MMLU-ProReasoning84.34%65 / 138$0.5 / $3
MMMUReasoning83.93%28 / 93$0.5 / $3
Terminal-Bench ScienceReasoning0.00%42 / 42$11.14

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena144076 / 35126.2K
CodingLMArena148353 / 3467.1K
MathLMArena145666 / 3391.3K
Creative writingLMArena1383128 / 3495.3K
Instruction followingLMArena143665 / 3519.3K
Hard promptsLMArena145959 / 35117.1K
Multi-turnLMArena144088 / 3494.1K
Long queriesLMArena144965 / 33011.6K
ExpertLMArena148049 / 3052.9K
Legal and governmentIndustries144772 / 3252K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1438102 / 3251.7K
Business and financeIndustries143863 / 3444.8K
ChineseLanguages150150 / 3282K
SpanishLanguages144865 / 249861
GermanLanguages144268 / 261420
FrenchLanguages146458 / 252907
JapaneseLanguages138892 / 236478
WebDevLMArena159132 / 12417.2K
VisionLMArena127044 / 1467.6K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

Compare Qwen3.8-27B

Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team releases a broad family of open-weight models, from small to frontier scale. Founded 2023 (Qwen), based in Hangzhou. qwenlm.github.io

Questions

Who makes Qwen3.8-27B?

Qwen3.8-27B is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.

How much does Qwen3.8-27B cost?

$0.20 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Qwen3.8-27B’s context window?

1M tokens (1,000,000).

How does Qwen3.8-27B rank?

#76 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1440 (95% interval 1435–1445) from 26,238 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Qwen3.8-27B open source?

Qwen3.8-27B has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B).

Sources

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