Qwen3.8 Max (0902) as a coding agent in your terminal

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) by Qwen (Alibaba), one of 250+ models you can use in Darce, the open source AI coding agent you can undo.

ModelQwen3.8 Max (0902)
VendorQwen (Alibaba)
Model idqwen/qwen3.8-max-0902
Context window1M tokens
Price per 1M tokens$2.00 input · $6.00 output (OpenRouter)
Can dotool calling · reads images · reasoning
CategoryReasoning

Strengths

A large Qwen 3.8 Max model. Strong general reasoning at a moderate price.

OpenRouter's description:

Qwen3.8 Max 0902 is an updated snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team. It is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that accepts text, image, and video input and returns text,...

Use Qwen3.8 Max (0902) as a coding agent in your terminal

Start Darce in your project with Qwen3.8 Max (0902):

npm install -g darce-cli
darce --model qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902

Already in a session? Type /model qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902, or open the picker with Ctrl+P. Darce then reads your code, edits files and runs commands with Qwen3.8 Max (0902); risky commands ask first, and /undo reverses any change, including what shell commands did. No account yet? npx darce-cli lets you try it free. Which plan includes which models is on the pricing page.

Make it your default or a gear

In ~/.darcerc, set it as the starting model or add it to the gears you move between with Shift+↑ / Shift+↓ (see configuration):

{
  "router": { "default": "qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902" },
  "gears": ["qwen/qwen3-coder", "qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902"]
}

Compare it on your own code

Benchmarks rarely match your repository. Race Qwen3.8 Max (0902) against two other models on a real task and keep the best diff:

/derby --models qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902,qwen/qwen3-coder,qwen/qwen3-coder-next fix the failing test

Read more about /derby and /swarm.

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