Qwen3.8-Max
AlibabaProprietary
Qwen3.8-Max is a vision-language model from Alibaba. It ranks 10 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1313±7 from 9,957 votes. Its best category is OCR (#9 of 123). License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- Alibaba
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: Captioning, Entity recognition.
Who it suits
- Overall #10 of 167: top tier, suited to demanding image-understanding work.
- Strongest category: OCR (#9 of 123).
- Proprietary; used through Alibaba’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 |  Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) Google | 1315 | 4,645 | Proprietary | +2 |
| 8 | Gemini 3.7 Flash (High) Google | 1314 | 5,369 | Proprietary | +1 |
| 9 |  Claude Opus 4.7 (High) Anthropic | 1313 | 22,731 | Proprietary | +0 |
| 10 | Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba | 1313 | 9,957 | Proprietary | |
| 11 | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | 1312 | 26,841 | Proprietary | -1 |
| 12 |  Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) Meta | 1308 | 5,392 | Proprietary | -5 |
| 13 | Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) Google | 1308 | 13,862 | Proprietary | -5 |
Alternatives · More from Alibaba
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba | 1278 | 14,212 | Proprietary |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
| 54 | Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba | 1262 | 32,657 | Apache 2.0 |
| 67 | Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct Alibaba | 1247 | 12,724 | Apache 2.0 |
| 70 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Alibaba | 1244 | 13,236 | Apache 2.0 |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 | Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Qwen3.8-Max rank among vision models?
Overall rank 10 (1313); OCR rank 9 (1322); Diagrams rank 16 (1323); Homework rank 12 (1336); Creative writing rank 13 (1312); Humor rank 13 (1304); English rank 10 (1311); Chinese rank 18 (1358) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Qwen3.8-Max at OCR?
Qwen3.8-Max ranks 9 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1322 (6,896 votes).
Is Qwen3.8-Max better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #18 of 128 (1358); English board: #10 of 167 (1311). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is Qwen3.8-Max open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through Alibaba’s apps or API.
How far is Qwen3.8-Max from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Qwen3.8-Max has 1313, 12 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.