Overview
Qwen3.8-27B is the newest generation of Qwen's open-model family and the most capable dense model here: 27B parameters with a native vision encoder, built on the Qwen3.5 architecture. Qwen highlights gains in coding, professional work, research and long-horizon agentic tasks, stronger autonomous planning and handling of environment feedback, and image plus video understanding spanning STEM diagrams, documents and hour-scale video. Context is 262K natively.
Strengths
- Qwen's strongest coding and agentic dense model
- Native image and video understanding
- Thinking can be tuned or turned off per request
Use cases
- Long-horizon agents that must finish multi-step tasks
- Coding work that also has to read screenshots or diagrams
- Document and video analysis
Good to know
Thinking mode is on by default, so responses include a reasoning phase unless you disable it on the request.
API access
One OpenAI-compatible API for every model in the catalog, plus the CLI and the function SDK inside workflows. Sign up free, add a card for $5 in credits, and these requests work:
curl https://gateway.graphn.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $GRAPHN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen3.8-27b",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'graphn model chat qwen3.8-27b -m "What is GraphN?"
@function
async def ask(question: str) -> str:
return await chat.complete(question, model="qwen3.8-27b")