Alternatives to Qwen3.8-Max

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Alternatives

Qwen3.8-27B: dense Apache-2.0 companion that fits one consumer GPU.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: the cheap architecture preview of Qwen4, about one-twelfth the price.
GLM-5.3-Flash: another recent open-weight cost-efficiency release, 320B / 18B active, MIT.

Qwen3.8-27B

Alibaba's open-weight 27B dense companion to Qwen3.8-Max: Apache 2.0 license, multimodal image-text input, built for local deployment and small-batch inference.

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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Alibaba's open-weight architecture preview of Qwen4: 125B multimodal MoE with 6B active plus a 51B N-gram table, 262K native context, at $0.16/M input.

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GLM-5.3-Flash

Models

Zhipu's first natively multimodal GLM (confirmed as the 'Ox Alpha' stealth model): 320B MoE with 18B active, 1M context, MIT open weights at $0.15/M input.

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