Alibaba's qwen3.8-max lands on DashScope with 2.4T parameters, 1M context, and thinking mode — while qwen3.7-max drops to legacy. Here is what changes for teams routing to Qwen's flagship tier.
DashScope OpenAI Responses API support is live on compatible-mode/v1 for Qwen3.7-max, qwen3.6-plus, qwen3-coder-plus and more — stateful previous_response_id, built-in web search and code interpreter, reasoning.effort control, four global regions.
MiniMax M2.7 delivers 56% SWE-Pro performance near Claude Opus at 1/10th the cost, with both OpenAI and Anthropic API formats — ideal for coding agent routing.
How to use DeepSeek Anthropic API at api.deepseek.com/anthropic with Claude Code and the Anthropic SDK — plus the routing hazards around unsupported fields, cache_control, MCP tools, and silent fallback to deepseek-v4-flash.
Kimi K2.6 API pricing is ¥1.10 cache-hit input, ¥6.50 cache-miss input, and ¥27 output per 1M tokens, with KVV verification, 256K context, and OpenAI-compatible routing for coding agents.
Alibaba Cloud's new Qwen-MT turbo model arrives via OpenAI-compatible endpoints, but its translation controls live inside extra_body — a pattern that breaks any middleware that strips non-standard fields. Here's what routing teams need to watch.
Full Qwen3.7-Max benchmark details: 69.7 on Terminal Bench 2.0, 92.4 on GPQA Diamond, top SWE-Pro scores, and a 35-hour autonomous agent run on the T-Head ZW-M890 PPU hardware. What these performance numbers mean for routing teams.
DeepSeek's official integration guide for Claude Code, OpenCode, and OpenClaw — API setup, per-tier V4 model routing, and Anthropic-compatible endpoint configuration for coding agents.
