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Qwen3.8 Flash Overview

Qwen3.8-Flash is a multimodal mixture-of-experts model from the Qwen team at Alibaba, and the production counterpart of the open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next preview that introduces the architecture intended for the Qwen4 family. The main model carries 125 billion parameters alongside a separate 51 billion parameter N-gram embedding table, while activating roughly 6 billion parameters per token. It accepts interleaved image and text input and returns text, handling 262,144 tokens of context natively with extension to 1,000,000 tokens using YaRN. The production configuration runs with the 1M context window by default and adds built-in tool support.

Four architectural changes separate it from earlier Qwen releases: hybrid attention that pairs Gated DeltaNet for history compression with Qwen Sparse Attention, which uses a lightweight indexer to select micro-blocks of context; a Gated Residual scheme; N-gram embeddings; and training with the Muon optimizer, refined around orthogonalization accuracy and the division of parameters between Muon and AdamW. Qwen reports training cost around one ninth that of Qwen3.7-Plus, with QSA attention kernels measured up to 7.6 times faster in prefill and 4.9 times faster in decode at 1M-token context. Reported scores include 58.7 on DeepSWE 1.1, 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro, 84.5 on AndroidWorld and 95.7 on MathVision.

Qwen3.8 Flash Interactive Demo

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Qwen3.8 Flash Details & Performance

Details

Resources

Vision Tasks

CaptioningChart Question AnsweringClassificationDocument Question AnsweringImage TaggingMulti-Label ClassificationOCRObject DetectionVision LanguageVisual Question Answering

Features

Foundation VisionLLMs with Vision CapabilitiesMultimodal Vision

Usage

Past 30 Days

Performance

Avg. Latency

Qwen3.8 Flash Vision Evals

Vision Evals is Roboflow's ground-truth benchmark: every model runs the same real-world samples across five vision tasks, and answers are scored against ground truth.

Evals updated October 8, 2026Pricing updated October 11, 2026

Overall score#33 of 61
59.7%
Avg cost / sample#8 of 61
$0.0004
Avg speed / sample#12 of 61
7.34s
Avg tokens / sample
1.8K

Strengths and weaknesses

Qwen3.8 Flash averages 59.7% across the five Vision Evals tasks, ranking #33 of 61 models overall.

Its weakest relative showing is Reasoning, ranking #49 of 61 at 35.1%.

At $0.0004 per sample it is the 8th cheapest of the 61 benchmarked models, and its average inference time of 7.3s per sample makes it the 12th fastest.

Performance profile

Field medianQwen3.8 Flash

Field medians: Object Detection 54.3%, Counting 62.6%, Identification 84.4%, OCR 61.3%, Reasoning 57.6%.

Results by task

TaskScoreField (0 to 100)RankCost / sampleSpeed
Object Detection (low)
59.8%
±1.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 58.5 to 60.8
#20 of 61$0.000610.37s
Object Detection (high)
67.0%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.3 to 68.5
#14 of 29$0.001015.78s
Counting (low)
56.3%
±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 54.0 to 59.5
#38 of 61$0.00024.97s
Counting (high)
68.0%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 67.6 to 68.9
#19 of 29$0.000816.66s
Identification (low)
88.5%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
#22 of 61$0.00013.75s
Identification (high)
86.5%
±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6
#18 of 29$0.00035.76s
OCR (low)
58.9%
#29 of 44$0.00047.55s
Single value
50.9%
Transcription
83.0%
Structured JSON
73.2%
Text localization
29.4%
OCR (high)
62.9%
#22 of 44$0.000815.40s
Single value
51.3%
Transcription
87.3%
Structured JSON
79.3%
Text localization
37.4%
Reasoning (low)
35.1%
±3.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 31.1 to 37.8
#49 of 61$0.00023.39s
Reasoning (high)
69.5%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 68.9 to 70.2
#23 of 48$0.001123.61s
  • Thinking longer helps: 7.2 points higher on object detection at high effort for 1.6x the cost and 1.5x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 11.7 points higher on counting at high effort for 4.9x the cost and 3.3x the latency.
  • Thinking longer does not help: 2.1 points lower on identification at high effort for 2.2x the cost and 1.5x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 4.1 points higher on ocr at high effort for 2x the cost and 2x the latency.
  • Thinking longer helps: 34.4 points higher on reasoning at high effort for 6.6x the cost and 7x the latency.

Price vs. performance

Score vs. cost

Overall benchmark score against estimated cost per sample, on a log scale. Upper-left is the sweet spot: high quality at low cost.

60 models on the current benchmark · scores and efficiency pooled across all five tasks at low effort · Qwen3.8 Flash highlighted

Qwen3.8 Flash scores are the mean of 3 runs per task at both low and high effort; OCR is a single preliminary run · Methodology

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Qwen3.8 Flash Pricing

Qwen3.8 Flash costs $0.150 per 1M input tokens and $0.470 per 1M output tokens.

Input$0.150 / 1M tokens
Output$0.470 / 1M tokens
Cached input$0.016 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Oct 11, 2026

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Qwen3.8 Flash License

Custom License · Model-specific license

Qwen3.8 Flash ships under a custom, model-specific license rather than a standard permissive or restrictive one, so the Qwen3.8 Flash license has to be read directly. Custom model licenses range from effectively permissive to research-only.

Commercial use
Varies. Custom model licenses commonly restrict commercial use, cap monthly active users, or carve out specific industries — check the Qwen3.8 Flash terms before you build on it.
Modification
Usually permitted for fine-tuning, but check whether derivative weights inherit the same license and naming requirements.
Redistribution
Often restricted. Look for attribution, naming, and acceptable-use requirements that apply to any copy you share.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Qwen3.8 Flash Vision

Yes. Qwen3.8 Flash accepts image input and handles OCR, object counting, identification, visual reasoning, and object detection. On Roboflow's Vision Evals its strongest task is Object Detection at 59.8% (#20 of 61 at low effort). You can test it on your own image in the demo above.

Yes. it scores 58.9% (#29 of 44 at low effort) on Vision Evals OCR, which covers single readings, full transcriptions, structured JSON, and locating text with boxes. Within that, full transcriptions score 83%, and returning the fields of a label or form as JSON scores 73.2%.

Not its strength. On Vision Evals, Qwen3.8 Flash scores 59.8% mAP@50 on object detection (#20 of 61 at low effort) and 56.3% judge-graded accuracy on object counting. For production counting or precise localization, pairing it with a specialized detector like RF-DETR or your own trained model in a Roboflow Workflow is usually more reliable: detect the objects, then count the detections.

On our benchmark's task mix, Qwen3.8 Flash averages $0.0004 per sample at $0.15 per 1M input and $0.47 per 1M output tokens (#8 of 61 on cost), with an average speed of 7.3s per sample across the benchmark. Actual cost depends on your images and prompts.

On the overall Vision Evals ranking, Qwen3.8 Flash sits #33 of 61 at 59.7%, just behind Muse Glimmer 30B (61.4%) and just ahead of Grok 4.6 (59.1%). See the full side-by-side: Qwen3.8 Flash vs Muse Glimmer 30B.