Alibaba · Qwen Flash line · lightweight · open weights
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next was released by Alibaba on August 26, 2026, as an open-weights lightweight model in the Qwen Flash line.
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
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Latest: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · Aug 26, 2026
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