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GPT-6 Astra vs Qwen3.8-Max

Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 6 tasks where both are listed: GPT-6 Astra is a tier higher in 2 of 6 shared tasks, they share a tier in 4.

GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI's most capable GPT tier, introduced with GPT-6, aimed at complex reasoning and coding.

Vendor: OpenAI
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 3 Sep 2026
API price: $10 in / $50 out per 1M tokens
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to GPT-6 Astra

Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba's hosted Qwen3.8-Max: the API version takes text, image and video input with a 1M-token context.

Vendor: Alibaba (Qwen)
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 2 Aug 2026
API price: $2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio list price quoted by The Batch (cached input $0.25/1M); OpenRouter lists the same for the qwen3.8-max-0902 snapshot. The higher-throughput 'Max Prime' SKU (2026-09-23) costs $4/$12.)
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Qwen3.8-Max

Task by task

Task	GPT-6 Astra	Qwen3.8-Max	Higher tier
Chat & assistants Models	A1,477 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	A1,482 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Search & research Models	S1,246 on LMArena Search Arena (style control) · Cloud	S1,230 on LMArena Search Arena (style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Writing Models	A1,450 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	A1,469 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Coding Models	S1,776 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	B1,674 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	GPT-6 Astra
Image understanding Models	S1,286 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	S1,301 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Workflow automation Models	A68.5% on AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) · Cloud	C56.2% on AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) · Cloud	GPT-6 Astra

A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.

Same benchmark, both results

Benchmark	GPT-6 Astra	Qwen3.8-Max	Snapshot
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Composite index over Artificial Analysis' own evaluation suite, higher is better	53 GPT-6 Astra (Max)	45 Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	19 Oct 2026
Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro (independent evaluation) Accuracy on MMMU-Pro (multi-discipline multimodal questions over images), as run by Artificial Analysis, higher is better	86.9% GPT-6 Astra (Max)	82.8% Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	19 Oct 2026
AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) Score: average share of each task's objectives completed across 657 business-workflow tasks in 40 simulated SaaS apps via REST APIs; a task with any guardrail (business-rule) violation scores zero, higher is better	68.5% GPT-6 Astra (Max)	56.2% Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	19 Oct 2026
LMArena Search Arena (style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on search-grounded answers, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,246 gpt-6-astra-max	1,230 qwen3.8-max	13 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, style-controlled default view), higher is better	1,477 gpt-6-astra-max	1,482 qwen3.8-max	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, creative-writing prompts only, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,450 gpt-6-astra-max	1,469 qwen3.8-max	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on image + text prompts, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,286 gpt-6-astra-max	1,301 qwen3.8-max	9 Oct 2026
LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on web-app generation), higher is better	1,776 GPT-6 Astra (Max)	1,674 Qwen3.8-Max (0902)	18 Oct 2026