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Updated Sep 2026

Qwen Plus 0728vsQwen3.8 Max (0902)

Qwen Plus 0728 is cheaper than Qwen3.8 Max (0902) at $0.4/M vs $2/M input tokens.

Qwen Plus 0728 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) compared across 10 shared prompts
SpecQwen Plus 0728Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Input price$0.4/M tokens$2/M tokens
Output price$1.2/M tokens$6/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2025Sep 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 5 of the 10 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Qwen Plus 0728228 words
Dish Name: Golden Pan Hug Description: A warm, comforting, slightly sweet, and buttery one-pan snack or dessert made with pantry staples—crispy on the edges, soft in the middle, and impossible to resist.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)230 words
🍯 Midnight Crispy Chickpea Bowl A sweet-savory, crispy rice bowl that comes together faster than delivery. Ingredients (7) # Ingredient Amount 1 Canned chickpeas (drained & patted dry) 1 can (15 oz) 2 Soy sauce 3 tbsp 3 Honey 2 tbsp 4 Garlic (minced) 3 cloves 5 Vegetable oil 2 tbsp 6 Instant or leftover cooked rice 2…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Qwen Plus 0728568 words
Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan focused on three foundational pillars of health and longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep. Each week builds on the last with small, sustainable habits to set the stage for long-term wellness.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)536 words
The 30-Day Foundation Plan Core principle: Don't overhaul your life. Layer small wins that compound. 🏃 Area 1: Movement The goal isn't fitness. It's making your body a place you want to live in. Week 1 — Build the trigger Walk 15 minutes daily (same time each day to build the habit) No gym. No gear.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Qwen Plus 0728799 words
1. To the Experienced Software Engineer (Distributed Systems Background): Think of a large language model as a highly sophisticated state machine trained at internet scale, where the state is a high-dimensional vector (the context window) and the transition function is a neural network.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)1,046 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM as a lossy compression function trained on a massive corpus. During training, you're essentially building a statistical model of "given this sequence of tokens, what's the probability distribution over the next token?"
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

Qwen Plus 07281,578 words
This architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor has several promising elements (WebSockets, Redis, PostgreSQL, CDN), but it also contains significant flaws in consistency, scalability, and reliability.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)477 words
Architecture Failure Analysis: Real-Time Collaborative Editor Critical Issues (Data Loss / Correctness) Last-Write-Wins with Client Clocks — Fundamental Data Loss Problem: Client clocks are unreliable. They drift, can be manually set, and differ across timezones.
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Qwen Plus 0728736 words
This pitch deck for MindMeld AI is ambitious and compelling, but three of its claims are particularly weak due to scientific implausibility, overstatement, or lack of credibility. Here’s a breakdown of the three weakest claims, why they’re problematic, and how to strengthen them: 1.
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Qwen3.8 Max (0902)582 words
The 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch The TAM Claim: "$180B" (Slide 4) Why it's weak: This is a textbook case of TAM inflation that immediately undermines credibility with any experienced investor.
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Our Verdict
Qwen Plus 0728
Qwen Plus 0728
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Qwen Plus 0728 costs 5.0x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Qwen Plus 0728
Input
$0.40
5.0× cheaper
Output
$1.20
5.0× cheaper
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00

Qwen Plus 0728 is cheaper on both: 5.0× input, 5.0× output.

Where to run it

2 hosts

Qwen Plus 07281 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$0.26 in·$0.78 out·1M·100% up
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 22 Sep 2026.

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FAQ

Common questions

Both are developed by Qwen but target different use cases. Qwen Plus 0728 has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.8 Max (0902)'s 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 10 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Qwen Plus 0728 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 10 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Qwen Plus 0728 costs $0.4/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $2/M input tokens. Qwen Plus 0728 is $1.60/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Qwen Plus 0728 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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