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Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba

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Context window
1M
1,000,000 tokens
Input / Output
image, text, video → text

API pricing

USD / 1M tokens

InputOutputCached input
  • $2.00Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1
qwencloud-pricing
  • $6.00Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1
qwencloud-pricing
  • $0.17Explicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1
  • $0.25Implicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1
qwencloud-pricing
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  1. · Product update · evidence link
Input / output price · USD / 1M tokens
ModelEvidence linksInput / output price
qwen3.8-max
standard · text
opencode-go$2.00 / $6.00
qwen3.8-max
batch
qwencloud
API route unavailable
$1.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) / $3.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1)
qwen3.8-max
standard
qwencloud
API route unavailable
$2.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) / $6.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1)
  1. · Evidence links · Qwen · official article bodies
    Excerpt
    Qwen3.8-Max — now available via QwenCloud:
  2. · Evidence links · GitHub · QwenLM/qwen-code · PR

    This code reference does not establish a working model identifier.

  3. · Evidence links · GitHub · QwenLM/qwen-code · PR
    Excerpt
    | `GET /api/v1/uploads?action=getPolicy&model=qwen3.8-max` | 200, complete policy (upload host `dashscope-file-mgr.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com`) |

    This code reference does not establish a working model identifier.

  4. · Evidence links · GitHub · QwenLM/qwen-code · PR

    This code reference does not establish a working model identifier.

  5. · Alex's posts · Alex Getman
    Excerpt
    ⚡️ Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max The new 2.4T parameter flagship benchmarks in the same league as GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5. API pricing is $2/M input and $6/M output, roughly half the cost of GPT-5.6 Terra and Claude Sonnet. Now it’s up to users to see whether Qwen can beat DeepSeek-V4-Flash and GPT-5.6 Luna on price to performance.

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Specifications

Qwen3.8 Max is a model from Alibaba, released on 3 Aug 2026. The context window is 1,000,000 tokens. Pricing is $2.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million input tokens and $6.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million output tokens.

Context window
1,000,000
Input
image · text · video
Output
text
Input · USD / 1M tokens
$2.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1)
Output · USD / 1M tokens
$6.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1)
Cached input · USD / 1M tokens
$0.17 (Explicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1); $0.25 (Implicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1)

Questions

What is the context window of Qwen3.8 Max?

The context window is 1,000,000 tokens.

How much does Qwen3.8 Max cost?

Pricing is $2.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million input tokens and $6.00 (Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.17 (Explicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1); $0.25 (Implicit cache; Qwen Cloud region ap-southeast-1) per million.

When was Qwen3.8 Max released?

On 3 Aug 2026.