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18 Aug 2026, 1:25 AM	Hacker News	7.0	Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis Qwen3.8 27B, an open-weights model from Alibaba released August 2026, scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1, ranking #1 out of 135 models in its class (small open-weights, 4B–40B). It supports text and image input, has a 256k context window, is a reasoning model, and is licensed Apache 2.0 — but is notably verbose, generating 160M output tokens versus a class median of 43M. Why: If you're self-hosting or selecting an open-weights model for a product, Qwen3.8 27B is now the top-scoring option in the small-parameter class on Artificial Analysis, and Apache 2.0 means unrestricted commercial use. The verbosity flag is the practical catch: at 160M tokens vs 43M median, inference cost and latency per task could be significantly higher than the index score alone suggests — factor output token volume into your deployment math before committing. open-weights llm-benchmarks model-selection qwen self-hosting

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18 Aug 2026, 1:25 AM

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7.0

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Qwen3.8 27B, an open-weights model from Alibaba released August 2026, scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1, ranking #1 out of 135 models in its class (small open-weights, 4B–40B). It supports text and image input, has a 256k context window, is a reasoning model, and is licensed Apache 2.0 — but is notably verbose, generating 160M output tokens versus a class median of 43M.

Why: If you're self-hosting or selecting an open-weights model for a product, Qwen3.8 27B is now the top-scoring option in the small-parameter class on Artificial Analysis, and Apache 2.0 means unrestricted commercial use. The verbosity flag is the practical catch: at 160M tokens vs 43M median, inference cost and latency per task could be significantly higher than the index score alone suggests — factor output token volume into your deployment math before committing.