Released: 2026-09-23

Qwen 3.8 Max Prime

Alibaba premier frontier open-weight reasoning flagship with dual deliberate thinking modes.

Intelligence Index
93.0/ 100
Calibrated multi-domain composite
Throughput Speed
68tok/sec
Output streaming throughput
Time To First Token
390ms
Initial chunk server latency
LiveBench Contam-Free
80.0%
September 2026 suite score

Sourced Benchmark Evaluations (61)

Verified performance across authoritative benchmarks with provenance tracking.
BenchmarkStatusScoreTrustDateSource TypeProvenance
RULERNearing Saturation85.6%
84
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MercuryDeprecated74.8%
10
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MGSMNearing Saturation88.4%
65
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MMLUSaturated94.9%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MMLU-ProNearing Saturation85.6%
75
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MMLU-ReduxSaturated91.1%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MT-BenchNearing Saturation8.8%
75
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MultiPL-EDeprecated78.2%
10
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Needle-in-a-HaystackSaturated98.6%
44
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
OlympiadBenchActive76.3%
80
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Omni-MATHDeprecated68.8%
10
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
OpenAI-MRCRActive78.1%
80
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
PutnamBenchActive48.4%
90
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
QASPERNearing Saturation77.2%
65
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
QuALITYNearing Saturation81.8%
78
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
AGIEvalSaturated80%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SCROLLSNearing Saturation74.4%
65
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SimpleQAActive48.4%
90
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SoohakActive70.7%
98
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
StructFlowBenchNearing Saturation72.7%
75
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SuperGLUESaturated94.9%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SWE-benchDeprecated57.8%
10
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SWE-bench ProActive52.7%
90
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SWE-bench VerifiedSaturated66.3%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SWE-LancerDeprecated57.8%
20
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
TabMWPSaturated85.6%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Terminal-BenchActive59.5%
80
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
TruthfulQASaturated81.8%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
WinoGrandeSaturated96.7%
28
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
ZeroSCROLLSNearing Saturation74.4%
78
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MBPPSaturated90.1%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
AgentIFNearing Saturation58.2%
80
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
AIMENearing Saturation88.4%
75
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
ARC-AGISaturated87.4%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
ARC-AGI-2Nearing Saturation72.5%
75
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
ARC-AGI-3Active60.5%
93
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
BIG-Bench HardSaturated91.1%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
CodeContestsDeprecated55.3%
10
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
CodeXGLUEDeprecated79.9%
23
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
CommonsenseQASaturated97.7%
28
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
ComplexBenchNearing Saturation70.2%
80
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
CyberSecEvalDeprecated76.5%
10
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
FireBenchActive71.9%
95
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
FrontierCodeActive49.3%
98
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
FrontierMathActive26%
98
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GLUESaturated100%
28
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPQANearing Saturation81.8%
78
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GSM-HardDeprecated89.3%
10
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GSM8KSaturated100%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
HumanEvalSaturated96.9%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
HumanEval+Saturated91.8%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Humanity's Last ExamActive40.9%
93
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
IFEvalDeprecated83.8%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
InfiniteBenchNearing Saturation79.1%
65
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
LiveCodeBenchSaturated69.7%
39
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
LongBenchNearing Saturation80%
65
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
LongBench-ProActive76.3%
80
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MATHSaturated91.1%
25
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MathArenaActive74.4%
99
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MBPP+Nearing Saturation86.7%
65
2026-09-12independentSource ↗
LiveBench (Continuous)Active80%
94
2025-02-01independentSource ↗
Local Hardware Execution (Ollama)Hardware Compatible
# 1. Pull and execute model locally with Ollama
ollama run qwen-3-8-max-prime

# 2. Or invoke via local OpenAI-compatible endpoint
curl http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen-3-8-max-prime",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Analyze reasoning chains on AIME 2026"}]
  }'

Evaluation & Sourcing Notes

Scores listed for Qwen 3.8 Max Prime represent verified evaluations extracted from official research papers, independent evaluation suites (HELM, LMSYS, OpenCompass, LiveBench), and verified audit reports.

All benchmarks marked as saturated or deprecated reflect historical performance where the benchmark no longer provides active discriminative power.