Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weights model released in August 2026 that ranks in the top tier for intelligence with a score of 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while offering competitive free pricing and faster-than-average speed. However, the model is notably verbose, generating significantly more tokens than comparable models during evaluation. It supports multimodal inputs (text, image, video) with a 256k token context window and 180 billion total parameters.