Qwen
Alibaba's newest fast multimodal reasoner — images, video and a million-token context, open weights.
1M tokens
Context
131,072 tokens
Max output
Fast
Speed
Three prompts, three unedited answers, generated on September 2, 2026 through NinjaChat. Click the prompt to copy it and run it yourself.
Write a Python function that merges overlapping intervals, plus three short tests. Keep the whole answer under 40 lines of code.
def merge_intervals(intervals):
intervals = sorted(intervals)
merged = []
for start, end in intervals:
if merged and start <= merged[-1][1]:
merged[-1][1] = max(merged[-1][1], end)
else:
merged.append([start, end])
return merged
assert merge_intervals([[1, 3], [2, 6], [8, 10]]) == [[1, 6], [8, 10]]
assert merge_intervals([[1, 4], [4, 5]]) == [[1, 5]]
assert merge_intervals([[2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7]]) == [[2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7]]
Read: We ran the same 3 prompts on 12 AI models — Unedited answers, latency and price for every model, measured through the NinjaChat API in September 2026.
Served by Novita as qwen-3.8-flash. Answers vary run to run; these are one take each, not the best of several.
The error, the screenshot and the repo in one prompt.
Long PDFs and reports in a million-token context.
Images and video frames as native input.
Tool calls and structured output at speed.
Tuned to this model — click any line to copy.
Qwen 3.8 Flash is the fast tier of Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 generation, released on August 26, 2026. It is a multimodal reasoning model: text, images and video in, with a million-token context, 128K tokens of output, tool calling and structured output. Alibaba points it at coding, agentic workflows, visual understanding and document analysis, and it is priced for volume. On NinjaChat it is included in every plan.
What you notice first is the range for the speed. It reads a screenshot and the code around it, follows a long document, and calls tools, all at a pace that suits iteration. The 3.8 generation also ships larger siblings, 27B and Max, for when you want more depth from the same family; Flash is the everyday one.
Against the other fast multimodal models here, Qwen 3.8 Flash is the open-weight option with the biggest context in its class. GPT-5.6 Luna and Gemini 3.7 Flash are the closed-model rivals, and all three sit in one picker on NinjaChat, so the honest comparison is a prompt away.
From zero to your first result in under a minute.
01
Create a NinjaChat account and choose a plan
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Open chat and pick Qwen 3.8 Flash from the model list
03
Attach the screenshot, document or clip with your question
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Ask for JSON when the answer feeds a pipeline
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Compare with Gemini 3.7 Flash and GPT-5.6 Luna
Where it wins, and where it doesn't.
The same subscription covers the image studio and video generation.



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