Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) vs Qwen3.8 27B, head to head

Side A

Side B

Overall

Qwen3.8 27B is clearly better. It wins 57 of the 68 test cases where they differ.

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Task by task

A score turns orange only when that model wins clearly more of the task's test cases. Under each score, the average time per test case on the machine it ran on. Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) spends 1.2× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens

TaskAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BQwen3.8 27BApodex 1.1 Mini (free)Qwen3.8 27B

Overall

2535.1s

8.5K5.9K

4833.3s

Agents

Runs multi-step jobs through tools, within a written policy

2639.4s

6.2K5.2K

5736.6s

Structured Extraction

Turns logs, diffs and records into exact JSON

5227.2s

7.7K4.6K

7320.6s

Coding

Writes code and SQL that pass hidden tests

446.5s

12.1K9.3K

3753.0s

Grounded Answers

Answers from the given documents with sources, never guesses

2926.0s

6.9K4.2K

6131.6s

Instruction Following

Applies every rule, including ones changed mid-conversation

3644.5s

11.4K6.9K

6733.6s

Business Logic

Computes billing, scheduling and pricing rules exactly

1435.4s

10K7.6K

3632.9s

Security & permissions

Ignores planted instructions, still does the allowed work

4027.3s

5.8K3.7K

5122.6s

Diagnosis & investigation

Chooses diagnostic checks, repairs supported causes and verifies recovery

034.6s

5.1K5.9K

040.0s

What you'd run

The build behind each score. Orange marks the faster, smaller, cheaper or longer-context side.

SpecAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BQwen3.8 27B

Speed

278 tok/s

196 tok/s

Machine

Hosted

Memory at 32K

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Context

256K

Cost per run

Not measured

$1.28

Cost per case

Not measured

$0.0083

Time per case

35.1s

33.3s

Quantization

BF16

FP8

Harness

openrouter

The race

No lead changes

Each model's running score as the test cases go by. The dashed line is a perfect run.

Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)Qwen3.8 27B

Every test case

153 test cases

Each square is one test case, colored by the model that scored higher.

Agents09

Structured Extraction59

Coding010

Grounded Answers18

Instruction Following19

Business Logic27

Security & permissions25

Diagnosis & investigation00

11 won by Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)57 won by Qwen3.8 27B85 tied