The newest Qwen Flash model is Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, released on August 26, 2026. It is the first model in this line, so there is no release rhythm to measure yet.
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Latest: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · Aug 26, 2026
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.
Open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 125B total parameters but only 6B active per token, a 262K native context window and a built-in vision encoder, previewing the Qwen4 architecture.
Scores 40 on the all-round intelligence index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 — one score averaging 10 hard tests
40
✦ first model in this line — nothing earlier to compare
Costs under 50 cents per million output tokens
Price per 1M tokens — what developers pay, input / output
$0.15 / $0.47
✦ launch price — nothing earlier to compare