Qwen3.8 27B
Dense 27B open vision-language model with adjustable thinking.
Qwen3.8 27B is a dense, Apache-licensed vision-language model from the Qwen team for coding, research, multimodal tasks and long agent runs. Its thinking can be turned off or scaled up to an extra-high effort setting.
- Provider
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Type
- Language model
- Released
- Aug 14, 2026
- Input
- text, image, video
- Output
- text
- Open weights
- Yes
- License
- Apache 2.0
Best for
- Coding
- Agents
- Vision
- Local & on-device
Strengths
- Apache 2.0 weights
- Adjustable thinking effort
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