--- title: Qwen3.8-Max-0902: Same Price, Much Better at Coding and... description: Alibaba's Qwen team shipped Qwen3.8-Max-0902 on September 1, 2026, an in-place upgrade to its 2.4T-parameter flagship, keeping the same $2/$6 per-million-token... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ue0b74qdl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Qwen3.8-Max-0902: Same Price, Much Better at Coding and Office Work, Still Behind Opus 5 | daily.dev og:description: Alibaba's Qwen team shipped Qwen3.8-Max-0902 on September 1, 2026, an in-place upgrade to its 2.4T-parameter flagship, keeping the same $2/$6 per-million-token... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ue0b74qdl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UE0B74qDL.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Qwen3.8-Max-0902: Same Price, Much Better at Coding and Office Work, Still Behind Opus 5 **[Qwen](https://daily.dev/sources/qwen)** · [@geniusatwork](https://daily.dev/geniusatwork) · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Alibaba's Qwen team shipped Qwen3.8-Max-0902 on September 1, 2026, an in-place upgrade to its 2.4T-parameter flagship, keeping the same $2/$6 per-million-token pricing, 1M context window, and tool ecosystem. The snapshot was further post-trained on 'Coding & Cowork' tasks, producing large gains over its own predecessor: TerminalBench 3.0 jumped from 11.3 to 29.0, ProgramBench from 10.5 to 28.0, JobBench from 53.4 to 64.0, and WorkArena Elo from 1348 to 1468. Against rivals, results are mixed: 0902 leads on SWE-Atlas QnA, Automation Bench, and some visual-reasoning benchmarks, but Claude Opus 5 still leads most agentic-coding and office-work rows by four to fourteen points. Key footnotes caveat the table: the Fable 5 column may involve fallbacks, rival TerminalBench numbers are best-published-score comparisons across harnesses, and three benchmarks (QwenSWEBench V2, CoWorkBench, WorkArena) are Qwen's own in-house tests. The comparison predates Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.1, which shipped the same day. No information was given on open weights, with the model available only via API as qwen3.8-max-0902. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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