Qwen3.8-27B-RFI8-AA

tcclaviger/Qwen3.8-27B-RFI8-AA

Qwen3.8-27B-RFI8-AA is a image-text-to-text model from tcclaviger. Use it for the image-text-to-text task on the model card, and read the license before you ship it in a product. It is set up for transformers. The card lists the license as apache-2.0.

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From the Hugging Face model README

RFI8 Activation-Aware Quant — read this first

This is an RFI8 activation-aware quantization of Qwen3.8-27B (8-bit weights, Hadamard-32 rotation, group-32 block-float scales).

This checkpoint includes calibrated KV-cache scales for both the main model and the MTP speculative-decoding draft model. Serving with --kv-cache-dtype fp8 is nearly lossless for quality, and brings long-context speed uplifts and KV cache space savings (roughly double the context in the same VRAM).

This is an RDNA4-Optimized checkpoint

Serving requires the tcclaviger/vllm docker image. The RFI quant method, its HIP kernels, and the MTP KV-scale loading are implemented there and are not part of upstream vLLM. Full performance is only achieved on AMD RDNA4 (gfx1201) GPUs, where the hand-written HIP kernels (attention, GDN, RFI GEMMs) are enabled; on other hardware the model falls back to Triton reference kernels and runs substantially slower.

Measured quality (WikiText-2 perplexity, n_ctx 2048)

checkpoint	PPL
BF16 original	6.9224
W8A16, bf16 KV cache	6.8978
W8A8, bf16 KV cache	6.9034
W8A16, fp8 KV cache	6.9369
W8A8, fp8 KV cache (as shipped)	6.9392

The fp8 KV rows include the KV-cache quantization, not just weight/activation error. All rows measured on the served model; the PPL tool is included in the docker image.

W8A8 vs W8A16

The checkpoint ships in W8A8 mode (int8 activations). A8 vs A16 is a quality/throughput tradeoff: W8A16 (fp16 activations) is nearly indistinguishable from the BF16 checkpoint in quality, at lower throughput than A8. To switch to W8A16, edit config.json and change the activation dtype from int8 to fp16:

"quantization_config": {
  "config_groups": {
    "group_0": {
      "weights": {
        "act_dtype": "fp16"
      }
    }
  }
}

(That is the single "act_dtype": "int8" value under quantization_config.config_groups.group_0.weights — nothing else changes.)

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Qwen3.8-27B

[!Note] This repository contains model weights and configuration files for the post-trained model in the Hugging Face Transformers format.

These artifacts are compatible with Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, TokenSpeed, etc.

[!Tip] For users seeking managed, scalable inference without infrastructure maintenance, the official Qwen API service is provided by Qwen Cloud. In particular, Qwen3.8-27B will be available as a hosted version with more production features, e.g., 1M context length by default, official built-in tools. For more information, please refer to the Qwen3.8-27B Overview. The service is coming soon. Stay tuned for updates.

Following the widespread community adoption of the Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6 series, we are pleased to introduce Qwen3.8, the most capable generation in the Qwen open-model family to date.

Built on the architectural foundation of Qwen3.5, Qwen3.8 delivers substantial gains across coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks. Qwen3.8-27B brings these advances to a compact, deployment-friendly dense model: a native vision-language model that understands images and videos, with flexible thinking control, designed to carry complex, multi-step tasks through to completion with greater reliability.

Qwen3.8 Highlights

Qwen3.8-27B features the following enhancements:

Core Capabilities: Comprehensive improvements across coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks.
Agent Execution: Stronger autonomous planning and better handling of environment feedback, leading to more reliable end-to-end task completion.
Downstream Compatibility: Broader support for popular harnesses and development tools, making it easier to integrate into your existing stack.
Flexible Thinking Control: Thinking mode is on by default and can be disabled per request; reasoning depth can be tuned with reasoning_effort, and reasoning context from historical messages is retained via preserve_thinking.
Vision-Language Understanding: Native support for image and video understanding, from STEM diagrams and documents to hour-scale videos.

Model Overview

Type: Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder
Training Stage: Pre-training & Post-training
Language Model
- Number of Parameters: 27B
- Hidden Dimension: 5120
- Token Embedding: 248,320 (Padded)
- Number of Layers: 64
- Hidden Layout: 16 × (3 × (Gated DeltaNet → FFN) → 1 × (Gated Attention → FFN))
- Gated DeltaNet:
  - Number of Linear Attention Heads: 48 for V and 16 for QK
  - Head Dimension: 128
- Gated Attention:
  - Number of Attention Heads: 24 for Q and 4 for KV
  - Head Dimension: 256
  - Rotary Position Embedding Dimension: 64
- Feed Forward Network:
  - Intermediate Dimension: 17,408
- LM Output: 248,320 (Padded)
- MTP (Multi-Token Prediction): trained with multiple steps
Context Length: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,000,000 tokens.

Benchmark Results

Text Performance

VL Performance

<div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,sans-serif;max-width:1200px;margin:0 auto;padding:16px 0"> <table class="vl-table" style="width:100%;table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:13px"> <thead><tr><th style="padding:10px 7px;text-align:left;font-weight:600;border-bottom:2px solid #0A2EFE;color:#0A2EFE"></th><th style="padding:10px 7px;text-align:center;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0A2EFE;color:#0A2EFE;font-size: 14px;width:14.00%;background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);">Qwen3.8-27B</th><th style="padding:10px 7px;text-align:center;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0A2EFE;color:#0A2EFE;font-size: 14px;width:14.00%;">Qwen3.6-27B</th><th style="padding:10px 7px;text-align:center;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0A2EFE;color:#0A2EFE;font-size: 14px;width:14.00%;">Qwen3.7-Plus</th><th style="padding:10px 7px;text-align:center;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0A2EFE;color:#0A2EFE;font-size: 14px;width:14.00%;">Muse Glimmer-30B</th><th style="padding:10px 7px;text-align:center;font-weight:500;border-bottom:2px solid #0A2EFE;color:#0A2EFE;font-size: 14px;width:14.00%;">Opus4.6 Max</th></tr></thead> <tbody> <tr><td colspan="6" style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;color:#0A2EFE;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.2);background:#D6DAFC">Agentic Multimodal Intelligence</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Computer use</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">OSWorld-Verified</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>84.3</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">63.9</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">73.3</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">65.9</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">72.7</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Browser use</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">WebArena-Verified</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>64.8</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">48.8</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">55.3</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Mobile use</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">AndroidWorld</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>81.9</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">70.3</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">81.0</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">62.0</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Application recreation</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">RecreationBench</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>47.1</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">29.8</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">30.2</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Multimodal tool use</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">ClawEval-MM</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Pass@3</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>57.4</strong></div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Average</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">56.9</div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Pass@3</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">42.6</div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Average</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">50.4</div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Pass@3</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>57.4</strong></div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Average</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>60.1</strong></div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Pass@3</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">52.5</div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Average</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">54.7</div></div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Multimodal software engineering</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">SWE-MM</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>38.6</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">25.7</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">30.0</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">27.1</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Visual web development</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">Vision2Web</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>62.9</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">45.0</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">42.1</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="6" style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;color:#0A2EFE;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.2);background:#D6DAFC">General Multimodal Intelligence</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Visual math problem solving</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">MathVision</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">90.0</div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">With CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>94.6</strong></div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">85.1</div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>90.3</strong></div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">65.5</div></div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">General visual reasoning</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">BabyVision</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>65.7</strong></div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">With CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>85.6</strong></div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">28.9</div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">64.7</div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">With CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">70.4</div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">12.6</div></div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Scientific chart analysis</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">CharXiv (RQ)</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">83.7</div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">With CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>90.2</strong></div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">78.4</div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717"><strong>85.8</strong></div></div><div style="margin-top:7px"><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">With CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">85.9</div></div></div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">78.8</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><div class="metric-stack" style="padding:3px 0"><div><div class="metric-label" style="font-size:10px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:#777">Without CI</div><div class="metric-value" style="margin-top:2px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;color:#171717">66.0</div></div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Document intelligence</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">OmniDocBench 1.5</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">91.1</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">89.4</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>91.4</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">75.8</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">86.6</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Real-world perception</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">RealWorldQA</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">85.9</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">84.1</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>86.9</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">73.9</td></tr> <tr><td class="benchmark-cell" style="padding:7px 7px;padding-left:20px;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);"><div class="benchmark-capability" style="font-size:15px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.22;color:#171717">Embodied intelligence</div><div class="benchmark-name" style="margin-top:4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;color:#6B6B6B">ERQA</div></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);background:rgba(10, 46, 254, 0.08);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">65.5</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">62.5</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;"><strong>69.8</strong></td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">--</td><td style="padding:7px 7px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.15);vertical-align:middle;font-size:15px;line-height:1.2;">40.8</td></tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.72)"> <ol style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"> <li>MathVision, BabyVision, and CharXiv (RQ): Where both settings are available, cells report “Without CI” and “With CI” separately; otherwise, only the available setting is shown. A small number of incorrect ground-truth annotations in MathVision and CharXiv (RQ) were corrected following manual verification, and all reported scores on those benchmarks were computed using the corrected annotations.</li> <li>MathVision: Qwen3.8-27B is evaluated using the fixed prompt: “Please reason step by step, and put your final answer within <code>\boxed{}</code>.” For the remaining models, we report the higher score from two prompt variants—one with and one without the <code>\boxed{}</code> formatting requirement.</li> <li>WebArena-Verified: Scores are computed with the official WebArena-Verified grader under the OSWorld scaffold.</li> <li>RecreationBench: An in-house, long-horizon application-recreation benchmark designed to evaluate hybrid-agent capabilities across five platforms: desktop (Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows), mobile (Android), and the web.</li> <li>ClawEval-MM: Scores are reported as “Pass@3 / average score.” Pass@3 is the percentage of tasks passed in at least one of three trials; the average score is the mean benchmark score across the three trials.</li> <li>Vision2Web: Scores are averaged across the frontend, webpage, and website categories. Evaluations use the Claude Code harness and are judged by <code>gpt-5.4-2026-03-05</code>.</li> <li>SWE-MM: Scores are evaluated on the Claude Code harness using the public dev split of SWE-bench Multimodal, with the modifications described in Appendix 8.3 of the Claude Opus 4.7 system card.</li> <li>Empty cells (--) indicate that results are not yet available or not applicable.</li> </ol></div> </div>

Quickstart

For streamlined integration, we recommend using Qwen3.8 via APIs.

Serving Qwen3.8

[!Important] Inference efficiency and throughput vary significantly across frameworks. We recommend using the latest framework versions to ensure optimal performance and compatibility. For production workloads or high-throughput scenarios, dedicated serving engines such as SGLang, vLLM, or TokenSpeed are recommended.

Qwen3.8 can be deployed with popular inference frameworks, e.g.:

API Usage

[!Important] Qwen3.8 models operate in thinking mode by default, generating thinking content signified by <think>\n...</think>\n\n before producing the final response. To disable thinking content and obtain a direct response, refer to the examples here.

[!Tip] We recommend using the following sets of sampling parameters for generation:

Thinking Mode: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0

Instruct (or non-thinking) mode: temperature=0.7, top_p=0.80, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0

Please note that the support for sampling parameters varies according to inference frameworks.

Qwen3.8 comes with official support for reasoning_effort, which can be used to adjust reasoning depth and control cost:

xhigh (default): for complex tasks demanding thorough analysis
medium: balancing accuracy and speed
low: efficient reasoning optimizing for speed and cost

In addition, preserve_thinking is enabled by default for all workloads for the best out-of-the-box experience. To disable preserved thinking, refer to the examples here.

[!Tip] In multi-turn agentic tasks, lower reasoning effort does not always reduce overall task completion time. Although it may produce faster per-turn responses, it can also lead to insufficient analysis, more failures, and repeated retries, which may increase total latency and token consumption.

Chat Completions API

The Chat Completions API can be used with most inference frameworks, as well as Qwen Cloud. Before starting, make sure the OpenAI Python SDK is installed and the API key and the API base URL are configured, e.g.:

pip install -U openai

# Set the following accordingly
export OPENAI_BASE_URL='your-base-url'
export OPENAI_API_KEY='your-api-key'

Text-Only Input

from openai import OpenAI
# Configured by environment variables
client = OpenAI()

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function to merge two sorted linked lists."}]

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
    messages=messages,
    extra_body={
        "chat_template_kwargs": {
            "enable_thinking": True,  # on by default
            "preserve_thinking": True, # on by default
        },
    },
    reasoning_effort="xhigh",  # xhigh by default; supported levels are xhigh, medium, and low
    stream=True,
    stream_options={"include_usage": True},
)

reasoning_content = ""
answer_content = ""
is_answering = False
print("\n" + "=" * 20 + "Reasoning" + "=" * 20 + "\n")

for chunk in completion:
    if not chunk.choices:
        print("\nUsage:")
        print(chunk.usage)
        continue

    delta = chunk.choices[0].delta

    if hasattr(delta, "reasoning_content") and delta.reasoning_content is not None:
        if not is_answering:
            print(delta.reasoning_content, end="", flush=True)
        reasoning_content += delta.reasoning_content
    elif hasattr(delta, "reasoning") and delta.reasoning is not None:
        if not is_answering:
            print(delta.reasoning, end="", flush=True)
        reasoning_content += delta.reasoning

    if hasattr(delta, "content") and delta.content:
        if not is_answering:
            print("\n" + "=" * 20 + "Answer" + "=" * 20 + "\n")
            is_answering = True
        print(delta.content, end="", flush=True)
        answer_content += delta.content

messages.append({
    "role": "assistant",
    "content": answer_content,
    "reasoning_content": reasoning_content,
    "reasoning": reasoning_content,
})

Image Input

from openai import OpenAI
# Configured by environment variables
client = OpenAI()

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "image_url",
                "image_url": {
                    "url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.5/demo/CI_Demo/mathv-1327.jpg"
                }
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "The centres of the four illustrated circles are in the corners of the square. The two big circles touch each other and also the two little circles. With which factor do you have to multiply the radii of the little circles to obtain the radius of the big circles?\nChoices:\n(A) $\\frac{2}{9}$\n(B) $\\sqrt{5}$\n(C) $0.8 \\cdot \\pi$\n(D) 2.5\n(E) $1+\\sqrt{2}$"
            }
        ]
    }
]

chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
    messages=messages,
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)

Video Input

from openai import OpenAI
# Configured by environment variables
client = OpenAI()

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "video_url",
                "video_url": {
                    "url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.5/demo/video/N1cdUjctpG8.mp4"
                }
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "How many porcelain jars were discovered in the niches located in the primary chamber of the tomb?"
            }
        ]
    }
]

chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
    messages=messages,
)

# When vLLM is launched with `--media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"num_frames": -1}}'`,
# video frame sampling can be configured via `extra_body` (e.g., by setting `fps`).
# This feature is currently supported only in vLLM.
#
# By default, `fps=2` and `do_sample_frames=True`.
# With `do_sample_frames=True`, you can customize the `fps` value to set your desired video sampling rate.
# chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
#     model="Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
#     messages=messages,
#     extra_body={
#         "mm_processor_kwargs": {"fps": 2, "do_sample_frames": True},
#     }, 
# )

print("Chat response:", chat_response)

Instruct (or Non-Thinking) Mode

Qwen3.8-27B will think by default before responding. You can obtain a direct response from the model without thinking by configuring the API parameters. For example,

from openai import OpenAI
# Configured by environment variables
client = OpenAI()

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "image_url",
                "image_url": {
                    "url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.5/demo/RealWorld/RealWorld-04.png"
                }
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "Where is this?"
            }
        ]
    }
]

chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
    messages=messages,
    temperature=0.7,
    top_p=0.8,
    presence_penalty=1.5,
    extra_body={
        "top_k": 20,
        "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False},
    }, 
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)

[!Note] If you are using APIs from Qwen Cloud, in addition to changing model, please use "enable_thinking": False instead of "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}.

Disable Preserved Thinking

By default, Qwen3.8 retains thinking blocks from all historical messages, maintaining a complete reasoning trace across the conversation. This behavior, known as preserved thinking, ensures full context continuity and is especially beneficial for agent scenarios where decision consistency and reduced redundant reasoning are critical. It also improves KV cache utilization, optimizing inference efficiency in both thinking and non-thinking modes.

If you prefer to retain only the thinking blocks from the latest user message, you can disable this behavior by setting preserve_thinking to False:

from openai import OpenAI

# Configured by environment variables
client = OpenAI()
messages = [...]
chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
    messages=messages,
    extra_body={
        "chat_template_kwargs": {"preserve_thinking": False},
    },
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)

[!Note] If you are using APIs from Qwen Cloud, in addition to changing model, please use "preserve_thinking": False directly instead of wrapping it in chat_template_kwargs.

Best Practices

To achieve optimal performance, we recommend the following settings:

Sampling Parameters: We suggest using the following sets of sampling parameters:
- Thinking Mode: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0
- Instruct (or non-thinking) mode: temperature=0.7, top_p=0.80, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0
For supported frameworks, you can adjust the presence_penalty parameter between 0 and 2 to reduce endless repetition. However, using a higher value may occasionally result in language mixing and a slight decrease in model performance.
Adequate Output Length: To optimize performance on agentic tasks, we recommend allocating sufficient output length to allow the model to generate detailed and comprehensive responses. For frameworks that support separate token limits for internal reasoning and final outputs, we suggest the following configuration within the 1M context length:
- Reasoning Content: Set the maximum output length to 262,144 tokens.
- Final Response: Set the maximum output length to 131,072 tokens.
These settings provide the necessary capacity for complex reasoning while ensuring ample space for high-quality final deliverables.

Processing Ultra-Long Texts: Qwen3.8-27B natively supports context lengths of up to 262,144 tokens. For long-horizon tasks where the total length (including both input and output) exceeds this limit, we recommend using RoPE scaling techniques to handle long texts effectively, e.g., YaRN.

YaRN is currently supported by several inference frameworks, e.g., vLLM, SGLang, and TokenSpeed. In general, there are two approaches to enabling YaRN for supported frameworks:

Modifying the model configuration file:

In the config.json file, change the rope_parameters fields in text_config to:

{
    "mrope_interleaved": true,
    "mrope_section": [
        11,
        11,
        10
    ],
    "rope_type": "yarn",
    "rope_theta": 10000000,
    "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25,
    "factor": 4.0,
    "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144,
}

Passing command line arguments:

For vLLM, you can use

VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1 vllm serve ... --hf-overrides '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' --max-model-len 1000000

For SGLang, you can use

SGLANG_ALLOW_OVERWRITE_LONGER_CONTEXT_LEN=1 python -m sglang.launch_server ... --json-model-override-args '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' --context-length 1000000

For TokenSpeed, you can use

TOKENSPEED_ALLOW_OVERWRITE_LONGER_CONTEXT_LEN=1 tokenspeed serve ... --hf-overrides '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' --max-model-len 1000000

[!NOTE] All the notable open-source frameworks implement static YaRN, which means the scaling factor remains constant regardless of input length, potentially impacting performance on shorter texts. We advise modifying the rope_parameters configuration only when processing long contexts is required. It is also recommended to modify the factor as needed. For example, if the typical context length for your application is 524,288 tokens, it would be better to set factor as 2.0.

Long Video Understanding: To optimize inference efficiency for plain text and images, the size parameter in the released video_preprocessor_config.json is conservatively configured. It is recommended to set the longest_edge parameter in the video_preprocessor_config file to 469,762,048 (corresponding to 224k video tokens) to enable higher frame-rate sampling for hour-scale videos and thereby achieve superior performance. For example,
```
{"longest_edge": 469762048, "shortest_edge": 4096}
```
Alternatively, override the default values via engine startup parameters. For implementation details, refer to: vLLM / SGLang.

Citation

If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.

@misc{qwen38,
    title = {{Qwen3.8-Max}: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork},
    url = {https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8},
    author = {{Qwen Team}},
    month = {August},
    year = {2026}
}

Task: Image-Text-to-Text
Library: transformers
Type: qwen3_5
License: apache-2.0
Created: Aug 16, 2026
Updated: Aug 16, 2026