Qwen3.8 27B
· verified October 3, 2026
public paid api free open-weights reasoning agents vision long-context local
Provider
Statuspublic
AA Intelligence Index33.7 (official, read October 3, 2026)
Released2026-08-14
Context window1M
ModalitiesText + image + video
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.42 / $3 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.42/$3 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · free route on OpenRouter (qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free) · open weights · listed August 14, 2026
In one line
Qwen3.8 27B by Alibaba, measured by Artificial Analysis at 33.7 on the Intelligence Index, 68.1 on coding and 45.8 on agentic work. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 3, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen.”
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