Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 debuted at #1 on Code Arena's WebDev leaderboard on September 2, 2026, edging out Claude Opus 5 Max by three points while keeping its $2/$6 per million token pricing unchanged. The win puts a Chinese model at the top of the industry's toughest agentic-coding benchmark, and at a fraction of the likely cost of its closest rivals.
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