Qwen3.8 125B (6B active) Flash-Next
on M1 Max 128GB · MTPLX · 131,072 ctx
Use cases
coding
Summary
User reports Qwen3.8 Flash Next running on a MacBook Pro M1 Max 128GB with MTPLX at a constant decoding speed of around 30-40 tok/s.
Setup uses a 128K context window and 4 MCP servers (semble, context7, chrome-devtools, laravel-boost).
User compares the model to Claude Opus 5.5 on a simple coding task: Opus completed it in 3 minutes while Qwen took 53 minutes, with the model appearing to go in circles. Different reasoning levels (low, medium, high) yielded similar results.