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Alternatives to Qwen3.8 Max

For pulling data out of documents, Qwen3.8 Max scores 72 and costs $8.40 per 1,000 documents. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.

Overall 66$3.00 / 1M
95% similarMuse Spark 1.3Meta
Overall68+2
Blended / 1M$2.00−33%
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Muse Spark 1.3 vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall+2Coding±0Writing−5Support−1Value+4Context1M
95% similarClaude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic
Overall79+13
Blended / 1M$4.00+33%
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall+13Coding+12Writing−1Support−3Value+11Context1M
94% similarOpen weightsKimi K3Moonshot AI
Overall65−1
Blended / 1M$6.00+100%
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Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall−1Coding−1Writing−6Support+1Value−6Context1M
92% similarOpen weightsGLM-5.3Z.ai
Overall61−5
Blended / 1M$2.15−28%
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GLM-5.3 vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall−5Coding−7Writing−5Support−5Value−4Context1M
87% similarGemini 3.8 FlashGoogle
Overall71+5
Blended / 1M$1.50−50%
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Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall+5Coding−9Writing+5Support+6Value+8Context1M
86% similarGPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
Overall68+2
Blended / 1M$8.00+167%
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GPT-5.6 Sol vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall+2Coding−8Writing−8Support−6Value−4Context1.1M
85% similarMuse WonderMeta
Overall80+14
Blended / 1M$8.00+167%
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Muse Wonder vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall+14Coding+1Writing+6Support+7Value+8Context1M
84% similarGPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
Overall74+8
Blended / 1M$4.00+33%
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GPT-6.1 Sol vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall+8Coding+3Writing−17Support−14Value+6Context1.1M
83% similarOpen weightsDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek
Overall53−13
Blended / 1M$1.98−34%
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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Qwen3.8 MaxOverall−13Coding−19Writing−14Support−13Value−11Context1M

Similarity is closeness in pulling data out of documents score and in price. Cheaper means at least 30% less for within 5 points. Scores are provisional.

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