Performance Benchmarks for qwen3.8-max

Analyze how qwen3.8-max stacks up against other frontier models in terms of cost-to-performance and raw intelligence (LMArena Elo).

2026 Performance Summary

🚀 Intelligence (Elo): 1496
💰 API Cost (Input): $0.000002 / 1M tokens
⚡ API Cost (Output): $0.000006 / 1M tokens
⏱️ Real-world Throughput: 40 tokens/s

Analysis: qwen3.8-max offers competitive performance with an Elo of 1496. For developers optimizing strictly for cost-to-performance, we recommend comparing it against the current frontier leaders.

Highly Recommended Alternatives

Frontier Model	LMArena Elo	API Cost (1M)	Throughput
qwen3.7-plus	1459	$3.2e-7	11
gemini-3.5-flash-lite	1457	$3e-7	69
hy3	1456	$1.32e-7	86
gemma-4-31b	1451	$1e-7	115
gemma-4-26b-a4b	1438	$7e-8	97

*These models represent the Pareto Frontier (optimal cost-to-performance).*