Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.8 Max vs Solar Pro 3

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Solar Pro 3 Upstage

33.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3.8 Max scores higher in 2 categories and Solar Pro 3 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 54.4 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 53.2% for Qwen3.8 Max and 24.7% for Solar Pro 3.
  • Solar Pro 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8 Max.
  • Qwen3.8 Max accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Qwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Upstage
Noometry Index56.833.9
Released2026-08-022026-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M131K
Max output131K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$6$0.25
Results tracked392

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29), Solar Pro 3: 34.8

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
SciCode53.2%24.7%
DeepSWE57.5%—
LMArena WebDev1674—
FrontierSWE17.8%—
LMArena Coding1502—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
APEX-Agents63.3%—
τ²-bench Banking55.1%—
GDP.pdf23.2%—

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26), Solar Pro 3: 22.4

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
CritPt20%0%
NYT Connections (extended)88.3%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1496—
Mystery Game Puzzles38%—
DTBench92%—
LMCA46.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.41—

Math Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)74.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 446.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1499—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
GPQA Diamond92.7%—
SimpleQA Verified47.3%—
LMArena Expert1507—

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly20%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
LMArena Non-English1472—
LMArena Chinese1538—
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1483—
LMArena Japanese1467—
LMArena Korean1461—
LMArena Russian1481—
LMArena Spanish1492—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
LMArena Longer Query1489—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30), Solar Pro 3: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxSolar Pro 3
LMArena Text1483—
LMArena Creative Writing1479—
LMArena Multi-Turn1489—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max better than Solar Pro 3?

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8 Max or Solar Pro 3?

Solar Pro 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max lists at $2 and $6.

Is Qwen3.8 Max or Solar Pro 3 better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 34.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.8 Max does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.8 Max and Solar Pro 3 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.8 Max has 39 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro 3 has 2.

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