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Qwen3.8 Max (0902) in the playground
18 tests; our pick in 0. Each answer is linked to the test, where it runs live beside the other models'.
| Test | Our notes | Checks | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A map of the world from memory Drawing · 10 models |
Broken, even after a second try. In 39 of the land paths the outline data was written after the closing title tag instead of inside the path element, so no continent is drawn. The page shows a dark ocean with labels, a compass rose, a scale bar, a few lakes and some tiny islands. The labels are roughly where the oceans would be, but with no land to place them against, and "NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN" is cut off at the left edge.Took 2 tries: ran out of room at 64,000 tokens; finished at 128,000 tokens. | 0.5 of 4 | 2052 s | $0.952 |
| Draw a unicorn Drawing · 10 models |
The best scene: a unicorn facing left on a moonlit hill at dusk, with a glowing horn, rainbow mane and tail, grass and flowers. The body and head are well shaded, but the legs are flat straight slabs with square hooves that look pasted on, and it took over 12 minutes. | 2.5 of 3 | 755 s | $0.177 |
| The Starry Night, redrawn in SVG Drawing · 10 models |
A calm, smooth night scene: rolling green-blue hills, a village with a dark spire, a tall black cypress with stray branch spikes and a main spiral with a smaller curl beside it. The moon is an orange disc with a bright rim, reading more as an eclipse than a crescent. Mostly flat gradients with a few thin lines, so it looks like a digital illustration rather than a painting, and it took over 18 minutes. | 2.5 of 4 | 1123 s | $0.262 |
| Ball bouncing in a spinning hexagon Simulation · 10 models |
The most elaborate page, "HEX CHAMBER", with a lab-style dashboard counting velocity, ball spin and impacts, plus sliders and Pause, Reset and Kick. The 1.2 rad/s spin, the bounces and the rolling are all correct. The controls panel covers a large part of the hexagon's left side and the title overlaps the top, and the answer took over 12 minutes. | 3 of 3 | 727 s | $0.178 |
| The solar system, to scale in time Animation · 10 models |
The most styled answer: a "mission clock" readout, planets with fading trails, speed presets from a day to a year per second, toggles for orbits, labels and trails, and a dossier you open by clicking a planet. Speeds are correct (Mercury 4.1 laps per Earth year), but the Sun has no label, the Mercury and Venus labels overlap at times, a hover tooltip sits on top of the dossier, and it took almost nine minutes to answer. | 3 of 3 | 525 s | $0.127 |
| A product page from one feed row Business · 10 models |
The most ambitious page: a view gallery, colour cards that change the detail view, material bars, drawn care symbols, a size table with "Add size" buttons and a full spec sheet, all from the feed. But the main image is badly placed: the three socks sit at the right edge with the moss sock cut off by the frame. Adding gives a toast, an "Added to basket ✓" button and a basket count. It took 619 seconds. | 5 of 5 | 619 s | $0.161 |
| A pricing table with a monthly/yearly switch Web page · 10 models |
The most elaborate design: a dark "banter" page with a chat-message hero, a comparison table and a numbered FAQ. But the switch is broken. The rolling-digit animation leaves the old price in place, so yearly reads "£6£5" and "£11£9", and switching back gives "£6£6" and "£11£11 1". The smaller "£5 per person, billed yearly" line is right, and nothing is invented beyond a "= 2 months free" tag, which is true for Team. | 3 of 4 | 486 s | $0.114 |
| Pelican riding a bicycle Drawing · 10 models |
A cream pelican on a red bicycle on sand, with a large orange pouch with a fish's fin showing inside it. The saddle shows under the body, both feet are on the pedals, the wing tip rests on curved handlebars and the chain wraps the chainring. The most complete bicycle of the ten. | 3 of 3 | 452 s | $0.108 |
| Newton's cradle Simulation · 10 models |
The most elaborate page: a slanted, close-up frame with motion blur, a "Principia 1687" title card, counters for elapsed time, impacts, peak swing and energy, and lift buttons. The physics holds up once its opening demo settles, but the title card covers the top bar, and the swing loses most of its energy within about ten seconds. The slowest answer, at 729 seconds. | 3 of 3 | 729 s | $0.169 |
| A newsletter email that works in email Business · 10 models |
The most decorated answer, with a knitted-stitch SVG band and a "Wool School" box. Its style block adds CSS animations and hovers, and its step badges stretch into ovals that run into each other. It invents terms and a delivery policy ("Excludes gift cards · stacks with free UK delivery over £40", "One use per person"), plus a re-knitted heel and a Hebden Bridge address. | 3.5 of 5 | 752 s | $0.182 |
| A landing page for a photo-book app Web page · 10 models |
The most crafted desktop page: a scrolling ticker, a Monday-to-Sunday print timeline, a tap-to-pick app demo and postcard-style testimonials. It sells extra pages (+8 for £4) and a £15 second copy while also promising "no upsell at checkout", and it invents a crew of nine with a Heidelberg press. On a phone the hero photos collapse to thin slivers, leaving stray captions in a big empty gap. | 2 of 3 | 889 s | $0.232 |
| The jelly effect: ten frontier models, one prompt Animation · 10 models |
A round jelly with a face on a dark page ("JELLY", a squish counter, flavour dots). Tapping sends out a ripple ring and the face winces with an "o" mouth; grabbed near the edge it pulls into a long lopsided shape and wobbles back to round within three seconds. It ran out of room at 32,000 tokens and needed 64,000 and 16 minutes.Took 2 tries: ran out of room at 32,000 tokens; finished at 64,000 tokens. | 3 of 3 | 959 s | $0.412 |
| Conway's Game of Life Simulation · 10 models |
The most styled answer: a 90 by 56 "cellular automaton" console with counters, undo, a torus or dead-border switch and pattern cards with small previews. The rules are right and the glider and pulsar work, but the Gosper gun has a 2 by 3 block where the 2 by 2 block should be (38 cells instead of 36), so it explodes into chaos instead of firing gliders. It also took 859 seconds, the slowest answer by far. | 3.5 of 4 | 859 s | $0.210 |
| Flappy Bird in one file Game · 10 models |
The most complete game: a "PIXEL EDITION" with pixel digits, "+1" pop-ups for each pipe, a sky that turns to dusk as the score rises, a medal on the Game Over board, and a P key to pause. We passed 9 pipes, and the restart returns to "GET READY!". It took over 23 minutes to write. | 4 of 4 | 1390 s | $0.325 |
| Chess with every rule Game · 10 models |
"The Checkmate Room": a green felt board in a wooden frame, player cards with a "to move" tag, a score sheet and a gold "Checkmate 1-0" card at the end. Every rule we tried worked, but the h-file sticks out past the right edge of the frame, and it took almost 20 minutes to write. | 5 of 5 | 1177 s | $0.281 |
| A category page from a product feed Business · 10 models |
The most styled page: "Downpour Supply Co." with a scrolling ticker, a big yellow-jacket hero, chip filters, price bands and a slider. Every filter and sort we tried worked. It surrounds the products with invented claims, though: a "10K MM / seam sealed" stamp, a "60-day storm test", "Back in stock" news for the Ridgeback jacket and a made-up weather widget. It took over 18 minutes. | 3 of 4 | 1095 s | $0.246 |
| An animated SVG logo Drawing · 10 models |
A dark panel where a brush-stroke orange kestrel banks in and "KESTREL" draws itself letter by letter in hand-built monoline paths, finishing with a fading rule and "SPEED, DELIVERED." The lettering is well made, but it is a fixed 720 by 320 graphic, so in the preview it sits small in the top-left corner rather than filling the frame. | 4 of 4 | 692 s | $0.141 |
| An analogue clock that tells the time Drawing · 10 models |
An ornate cream dial with blue steel hands, a date window, a day-progress bar and a sweep/tick switch. The hands are right, but the large Roman numerals are crowded on a small ring, with XI, XII and I running into the "MERIDIAN" label, and the date window takes the place of III. It took over 12 minutes. | 3.5 of 4 | 732 s | $0.172 |