Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Qwen3 Coder Flash

Qwen3 Coder Flash costs 6.2x less per output token than Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ($0.975 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.

Replace Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Replace Qwen3 Coder Flash

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen

Coding: 62.4
Overall: 68.9
Output $/M: $6.00

Qwen3 Coder FlashQwen

Coding: No data
Overall: No data
Output $/M: $0.975

vs $6.00 vs $0.975 per 1M output tokens. Qwen3 Coder Flash is 6.2x cheaper.

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) or Qwen3 Coder Flash: which to pick

Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a coding score, 62.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 Coder Flash has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3 Coder Flash for output tokens 6.2x cheaper ($0.975 vs $6.00 per million).

Model AQwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen62.4/1005 independent benchmarks$1.32 per solved task Model BQwen3 Coder FlashQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task

No benchmark has tested both yet. Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has results on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and AA Coding Index; Qwen3 Coder Flash has none yet. Compare them on price and context instead.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a AA Intelligence Index result, 45.4.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a AA Agentic Index result, 56.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a GPQA Diamond result, 93.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a MMLU Pro result, 88.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a Design Arena: websites result, 1275.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 1M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 Coder Flash
Qwen3.8 Max (0902) $0.0050, Qwen3 Coder Flash $0.0007 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has the number, $1.32.
Directional only

At a glance

Coding index: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 62.4 from 5 benchmarks, Qwen3 Coder Flash not benchmarked.
Widest category: None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
Widest single gap: None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
Output price: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) $6.00 against Qwen3 Coder Flash $0.975 per million output tokens, 6.2x apart.
Context window: Both take 1M tokens.

Benchmark by benchmark

Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.

CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index22 boards measured

Coding benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
LiveBench coding	60.3%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena WebDev	1674	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
AA Coding Index	76.2	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)	87.8%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)	85.6%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)	34.3%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)	64.7%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Code migration (Vals AI)	24.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)	0.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
IOI (Vals AI)	68.9%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)	67.4%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)	42.5%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)	12.8%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)	42.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)	28.6%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SciCode	53.2%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
FrontierSWE	17.8%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: coding	1502	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: software and IT	1498	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena WebDev: React	1692	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML	1649	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image	1637	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here

IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards measured

Intelligence benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
AA Intelligence Index	45.4	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Epoch Capabilities Index	157.4	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured

Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index18 boards measured

Agentic work benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
AA Agentic Index	56.0	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps	1300	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps	1305	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps	1224	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps	1202	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games	1234	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides	1258	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets	937	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench research	69.9%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench browser	32.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench long agentic	42.3%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)	50.6%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)	32.1%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)	47.6%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)	60.1%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)	12.9%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
APEX-Agents	63.3%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Search	1261	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here

ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards measured

Reasoning benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
GPQA Diamond	93.7%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench reasoning	88.2%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)	23.9%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)	88.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)	92.8%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)	43.1%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)	92.7%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Chess puzzles	46.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Mystery game puzzles	38.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts	1496	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: expert	1507	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English	1503	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: diagrams	1323	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: homework	1336	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here

MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards measured

Math benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
OTIS Mock AIME	100.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3	74.7%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
FrontierMath, tier 4	46.3%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
ProofBench	58.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: math	1501	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: mathematical work	1491	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here

KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards measured

Knowledge benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
MMLU Pro	88.6%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)	83.6%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)	65.8%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)	75.5%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)	64.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MedCode (Vals AI)	40.7%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SimpleQA Verified	47.3%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: science	1512	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare	1503	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: legal and government	1492	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: business and finance	1480	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here

Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards measured

Web design benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
Design Arena: websites	1275	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: UI components	1340	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: game dev	1313	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: data viz	1282	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: 3D	1337	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: all code categories	1293	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: ASCII art	1200	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench design	78.6%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here

GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index32 boards measured

General benchmarks for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Benchmark	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash	Leader
LiveBench data analysis	78.4%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)	67.1%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SAGE (Vals AI)	51.2%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)	85.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Vals Multimodal Index	65.4%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)	80.3%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
DTBench	92.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMCA	46.2%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Furniture assembly	20.0%	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text	1483	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: instruction following	1481	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: creative writing	1477	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision	1313	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: English	1491	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: non-English	1473	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: Chinese	1539	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: German	1478	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: Japanese	1473	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: Korean	1460	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: French	1498	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: Spanish	1489	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: Russian	1482	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: Polish	1471	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn	1489	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: longer queries	1488	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: writing and language	1477	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: entertainment and media	1464	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: English	1311	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese	1358	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: reading text	1322	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: humor	1304	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing	1312	Not measured	Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)$0.0050Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder Flash$0.0007Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder Flash costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)$0.118Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder Flash$0.013Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder Flash costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)$0.460Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder Flash$0.049Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder Flash costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash
Specification	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Qwen3 Coder Flash
Maker	Qwen	Qwen
Weights	No public weights listed	No public weights listed
Released	September 3, 2026	September 17, 2025
Context window	1M	1M
Input $/Mtok	$2.00	$0.195
Output $/Mtok	$6.00	$0.975
Coding index	62.4	Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it	5	0
Cost per solved task	$1.32	Not computable
Source	OpenRouter listing	OpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max (0902) better than Qwen3 Coder Flash for coding?

Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has a coding score, 62.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 Coder Flash has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 Coder Flash for output tokens 6.2x cheaper ($0.975 vs $6.00 per million).

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) or Qwen3 Coder Flash?

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder Flash costs $0.195 and $0.975. Cost per solved task is known for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) only.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) or Qwen3 Coder Flash?

Neither: both take 1M tokens.

Has any benchmark tested both Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and Qwen3 Coder Flash?

No benchmark has tested both yet. Qwen3.8 Max (0902) has results on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and AA Coding Index; Qwen3 Coder Flash has none yet. Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of October 21, 2026.

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) or Qwen3 Coder Flash: which to pick

Which one for your work

Coding

Intelligence

Agentic work

Reasoning

Knowledge

Web design

Long documents

Everyday cost

Cost per solved task

At a glance

Benchmark by benchmark

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Agent loop

Specification differences

Questions

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