Webnovel Translation Benchmark

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Qwen3.8 Flash for web novel translation

How Qwen3.8 Flash by Alibaba translated eleven chapters of a Korean web novel into English: rank 11 of 28.

73.2quality score of 100
$0.024per chapter at list price
$2.44per 100 chapters
1017head-to-head rating

Muse Spark 1.2 scored higher (79.6) for $0.0022 a chapter.

Score by quality

Accuracy3.7 / 5meaning carried over correctly
Terminology1.9 / 5names, titles and martial-arts terms kept consistent across chapters
Register4.6 / 5tone and speech levels (honorifics, banter, formality)
Fluency4.9 / 5reads as natural English prose
Fidelity4.7 / 5nothing added, dropped or summarised
Sanitization5.0 / 5violence and crude language kept, not softened

10 of 11 chapters were scored; a chapter the model refused or failed is counted separately. It wrote about 50,640 output tokens per chapter, reasoning included.