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Qwen 3.8 Max vs Step 5

Both are SOTA right now. Each row below is one board’s call on the two, and the marked figure is the one that board places higher. No row is added to another, so there is no overall winner: the boards measure different things, and where they split, that is the finding.

Board Qwen 3.8 Max Step 5
Artificial Analysis LLM Leaderboard Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 45.4 No. 14 of 372 43.7 No. 17 of 372
Arena — Agent Overall 0.025 No. 23 of 49 0.005 No. 31 of 49
Artificial Analysis Coding Agents Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index 0.433 No. 17 of 22 —
Arena — Code Overall 1671 No. 10 of 109 1570 No. 33 of 109
Arena — Text Overall (style control) 1482 No. 23 of 306 1454 No. 74 of 306
Arena — Vision Overall (style control) 1301 No. 2 of 128 1260 No. 45 of 128

Each rank is the board’s own: the rank it publishes, or its place in its own order where it publishes none. The bar is how much of that board the model is ahead of. Scores from different boards cannot be compared.

At a glance

Developer Alibaba StepFun
Weights open closed
Released 2026-08-03—
Price Blended Price, USD per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output) $3.00$1.43
Value: where it sits on the kill line SOTA SOTA

Qwen 3.8 Max →Step 5 → How the kill line is drawn →

Qwen 3.8 Max against the other SOTA models

Step 5 against the other SOTA models