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R1 vs Qwen3.8 27B
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Qwen3.8 27B wins on 1/1 benchmarks
Qwen3.8 27B wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.
Category leads
arena·Qwen3.8 27B
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
R1
#156 by perf·#14 by attention
Qwen3.8 27B
#144 by perf·#2 by attention
Best value
Qwen3.8 27B
1.1x better value than R1
R1
28.5 pts/$
$1.60/M
Qwen3.8 27B
31.9 pts/$
$1.49/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
1 benchmark · 2 models
R1Qwen3.8 27B
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Qwen3.8 27B leads by +39.6
R1
1398.1
Qwen3.8 27B
1437.7
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | R1 | Qwen3.8 27B |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1398.1 | 1437.7 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.70 | $2.50 | 64K tokens (~32 books) | $11.50 | |
| $0.42 | $2.55 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $9.56 |