Compare Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct from Qwen and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen3.8 Max PreviewThe Qwen3 series open-source models include hybrid models, thinking models, and non-thinking models, with both reasoning capabilities and general abilities reaching industry SOTA levels at the same scale.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: $1.096/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1466 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts 131,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 41.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
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