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Reasoning · 1 checks · max 800 tokens · benched 2026-09-16

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Qwen3.8 27B vs Qwen3.8 Flash vs Qwen3.7 Plus on count sellable units

Alibaba models side by side on "Count sellable units": Qwen3.8 Flash scores 10/10; Qwen3.8 Flash is the cheapest answer scoring 8+ at $0.12 per 1,000 runs. Outputs, checks, judge reasons, latency and cost.

The prompt every model received

System

Think carefully, then give only the final answer in the requested format.

User

A warehouse receives 3 pallets. Each pallet holds 48 boxes and each box holds 12 units. On inspection, 15% of the boxes are damaged; round the number of damaged boxes down to a whole box. The damaged boxes are discarded. Then 7 undamaged boxes are sent to the quality lab and are not sold. How many units are left to sell? Reply with only the number.

Rubric for the judge: The single correct answer 1392 (144 boxes, 21 damaged, 7 to the lab, 116 x 12).

Side by side

Every cell is one OpenRouter call at temperature 0 with the prompt's token cap and reasoning effort "low" where the model supports it. Cost is usage × the catalogue rate in models.json. Quality is one judge call to anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 against the prompt's rubric, cached per prompt version.

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902

10/10
Latency
1.4s
Cost
$0.00131
Per 1,000
$1.31

141 in · 172 out (165 reasoning) · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
1392

Judge: The output matches the correct answer of 1392 units exactly, provided in the required format of a bare number only.

Qwen3.8 27B

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

10/10
Latency
1.6s
Cost
$0.00049
Per 1,000
$0.49

141 in · 181 out (111 reasoning) · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact


1392

Judge: The output provides exactly the correct numerical answer (1392) in the bare format requested, matching the rubric perfectly.

Qwen3.8 Flash

qwen/qwen3.8-flash

10/10
top judge scorecheapest scoring 8+
Latency
921ms
Cost
$0.00012
Per 1,000
$0.12

153 in · 206 out (199 reasoning) · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
1392

Judge: The output matches the correct answer of 1392 units exactly, provided in the required format of a bare number only.

Qwen3.7 Plus

qwen/qwen3.7-plus

10/10
Latency
1.1s
Cost
$0.00048
Per 1,000
$0.48

115 in · 344 out (337 reasoning) · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
1392

Judge: The output matches the correct answer of 1392 units exactly, provided in the required format of a bare number only.

Frequently asked

What does this prompt test?

Reasoning: The single correct answer 1392 (144 boxes, 21 damaged, 7 to the lab, 116 x 12). The deterministic checks are exact.

Which model should I pick for this task?

If the judge's bar of 8/10 is good enough for you, Qwen3.8 Flash at $0.12 per 1,000 runs. If you need the top score, Qwen3.8 Flash at $0.12 per 1,000 runs.

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