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title: "Qwen3.8-27B Hits No 1 on Cline and Harvey to End 4 Month Model Streak"
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summary: "Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B became the top local model on the Cline platform four days after its release, ending a four month lead held by Qwen2.5-Coder-7B. The open-weight system also secured the number one rank among its peers on Harvey's Legal Agent benchmark. The 27B parameter model is ranked number six among open-weight models on the Vals Index v2. Alibaba Qwen stated the system is small enough to operate on local machines while remaining capable of handling professional tasks."
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# Qwen3\.8\-27B Hits No 1 on Cline and Harvey to End 4 Month Model Streak

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**Published:** 2026-08-19T05:58:02.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** alibaba, qwen, coding, benchmark

## Summary

Alibaba's Qwen3\.8\-27B became the top local model on the Cline platform four days after its release, ending a four month lead held by Qwen2\.5\-Coder\-7B\. The open\-weight system also secured the number one rank among its peers on Harvey's Legal Agent benchmark\. The 27B parameter model is ranked number six among open\-weight models on the Vals Index v2\. Alibaba Qwen stated the system is small enough to operate on local machines while remaining capable of handling professional tasks\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-qwen38-27b-hits-no-1-on-cline-and-harvey-to-end-4-month-model-str-833f439c>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/cline/status/2089825294677143973>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2089922175507865795>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/ValsAI/status/2089836844842435040>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2089919106522976337>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2089763435865088508>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2089740575830409700>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/ttunguz/status/2089761618259591354>)