Alternatives to Qwen3.8-Max

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.

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.

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.