# Qwen3.8 Flash

Qwen3.8 Flash · Not on the active radar. A release or rename under this name is not confirmed.

- Developer: Alibaba
- Id: qwen3.8-flash
- Reported: 2026-08-26T11:23:48.753Z
- Sighting: 2026-09-19T02:31:50.545Z
  - [evidence link](https://models.dev/#qwen3.8-flash)
- Status: API availability
- Not on the active radar. A release or rename under this name is not confirmed.
- Canonical: https://alexgetman.com/models/alibaba/qwen3-8-flash/

## Questions

### What is the context window of Qwen3.8 Flash?

The context window is 1,000,000 tokens.

### How much does Qwen3.8 Flash cost?

Pricing is $0.15 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million input tokens and $0.47 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.016 (Explicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1); $0.016 (Implicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million.

### When was Qwen3.8 Flash released?

Its release date is not established. Signal Forge first recorded it on 19 Sep 2026.

## Timeline

- 2026-08-26T11:23:48.753Z · [Alex Getman](https://alexgetman.com/356/qwen3-8-flash-next-drops-today/)
> 🚨 QWEN3.8 FLASH NEXT DROPS TODAY
> 
> A ModelScope description that was quickly taken down reportedly revealed:
> 
> • 125B main parameters
> • 51B N gram embeddings
> • Only 6B active per token
> • Multimodal MoE architecture
> 
> The model is also an official preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture.
- 2026-08-26T12:54:00.791Z · [Alex Getman](https://alexgetman.com/357/qwen3-8-flash-next-is-out/)
> 🚨 QWEN3.8 FLASH NEXT IS OUT
> 
> The leaked specs were real:
> • 125B multimodal MoE
> • Only 6B active
> • 262K native context, up to 1M
> 
> Qwen says it beats Claude Opus 4.6 across coding, agentic tasks, tool use and several multimodal benchmarks.
- 2026-11-09T10:17:03.843Z · [GitHub · QwenLM/qwen-code · PR](https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/pull/16716)
> Model: qwen3.8-flash
This code reference does not establish a working model identifier.

## Evidence links

- [editorial](https://alexgetman.com/356/qwen3-8-flash-next-drops-today/)
- [editorial](https://alexgetman.com/357/qwen3-8-flash-next-is-out/)
- [qwen-model-index](https://docs.qwencloud.com/developer-guides/getting-started/text-generation-models)
- [GitHub · QwenLM/qwen-code · PR](https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/pull/16716)
- [models-dev](https://models.dev/#qwen3.8-flash)
- [opencode-go](https://opencode.ai/inference/go/v1/models)
- [review](https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8-flash?region=ap-southeast-1)

## Signals