Scores by reasoning setting

Enabled (Balanced group, tested and included)63.1
None (Baseline group, tested and included)33.8

Every tested setting is included in the overall score.

Available settings and grouping

Available settings

Reasoning disabledReasoning enabled

Checked on 2026-09-03 · Provider documentation

How settings are grouped

Baseline: Reasoning disabled — tested and included
Balanced: Reasoning enabled — tested and included
Intensive: Not available for this model

Scores by game

Go43.1
Chess50.9
Shogi55.9
Xiangqi44.2
Hex44.4
International Draughts68.2
Game of the Amazons42.7
Tumbleweed37.8

Each game counts every generation attempt, a failed one as 0 (“1 of 2 failed” marks games with failed attempts). Scores are relative within each game, across the included settings; they do not compare game difficulty.

What this result shows

Strongest included setting: Reasoning enabled (63.1).

Across included settings, the highest game score is International Draughts (68.2); the lowest is Tumbleweed (37.8). Each game counts every generation attempt, a failed one as 0. These are relative scores within each game, not direct comparisons of difficulty.

Match evidence measures these retained programs. It does not establish how a fresh generation will perform. Independent-generation variation is not estimated in this release.

Test protocol and evidence limits

Model identifier: qwen/qwen3.8-flash
Provider route (catalog): openrouter
Prompt identity / profile: Not retained in this result set / Not retained in this result set
Prompt version: Not retained in this result set
Generation policy: Generation-quality admission policy (see methodology)
Requested output-token limits: Not retained (0 of 22 indexed attempts)

Generation evidence

Reasoning disabled: 8 contributing player programs across 8 games
Reasoning enabled: 8 contributing player programs across 8 games

Counts describe contributing programs, not independent replications: repairs and resends are not new independent samples. Independent-generation lineage is not retained.

Game	Reasoning group	Programs	Working-program strength	Raw rating	Combined record (W / D / L)
Go	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	51.6	1484.6	165 / 181 / 170
Go	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	34.6	1319.6	113 / 112 / 291
Chess	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	58.6	1540.0	141 / 264 / 75
Chess	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	43.2	1419.4	12 / 375 / 93
Shogi	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	66.5	1585.7	247 / 126 / 121
Shogi	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	45.4	1387.2	142 / 126 / 226
Xiangqi	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	48.1	1460.4	85 / 292 / 121
Xiangqi	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	40.4	1400.3	26 / 334 / 138
Hex	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	71.7	1741.4	371 / 0 / 159
Hex	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	17.2	956.9	86 / 0 / 444
International Draughts	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	80.9	1962.7	376 / 40 / 86
International Draughts	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	55.5	1505.4	254 / 7 / 241
Game of the Amazons	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	75.3	1803.8	394 / 0 / 136
Game of the Amazons	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	10.1	837.5	46 / 0 / 484
Tumbleweed	Balanced	1 working of 1 attempt	52.0	1414.5	202 / 118 / 218
Tumbleweed	Baseline	1 working of 1 attempt	23.7	1098.8	29 / 176 / 333

Each row covers all the model's programs in one game and setting. Strength and raw rating are attempt-weighted means; under them, each program's score and the lowest and highest rating describe the programs (not a confidence interval). The combined record adds up their matches: evidence volume, not strength.

Failures and budgets

0 model-code generation failures; 0 provider/infrastructure failures excluded from the generation denominator. Runtime player faults are separate: 0 recorded one-sided faults across contributing program rows. A crash or illegal move pinned on one program also counts as that program's loss in its match record; other faults, such as timeouts, are left out of rating evidence.

Repair/resend outcomes and available costs are included. Exact retry ceilings and execution budgets are not retained in this result set; see the methodology for the public policy. Do not infer a measured setting from a current provider catalog.

Player program results

Reasoning enabled: 63% / 37% / 0% · n 8Reasoning disabled: 63% / 37% / 0% · n 8 No Overall rankIntensive not supported

Generation cost

$0.02average estimated cost per game and reasoning setting

Median: $0.02
Range: $0.0021–$0.06
Provider-reported total: $0.33
Cost data: 16 combinations · 16 runs
Price source: Provider-reported
Price list: Not recorded for this older data
Average output: 40k tokens
Output range: 2.1k–125k tokens
Runs with output-token data: 16

How cost is measured

Comparison cost gives equal weight to each model, game, and reasoning-setting combination. Recorded generation attempts include repairs and resends when cost evidence is available; runtime compute and service operation are excluded. Cost and output-token counts use separate telemetry denominators. A list-price estimate is not actual expenditure; mixed evidence is not a uniform standard-price comparison.

Test protocol

Combines this model's tested reasoning settings
Player-program generation; retained protocol details are under “Test protocol and evidence limits” above

Qwen3.8 Flash