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Qwen3.8 Max
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.8-max·GA·Closed·qwen series·NEW
2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship for coding, professional work, multimodal understanding, and long-horizon agentic workflows
At a glance
Official price$1.78 / $5.33 per 1M
Cache read $0.222 · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$1.65 / $4.95
Deep Infra Cloud · 1.5× spread
3 more $0 channels
Context1,000,000
⚠ Providers report 256,000–1,048,576; the table below is authoritative
Output limit131,072
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-08-03 / 2026-08-03
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence58.1
Value23
Coding71.8
Agentic58.4
Output speed45 tok/s
TTFT2.63 s
Cost per task$1.1320
Value formulaIQ 58.1 ÷ min blended $2.475 = 23
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 22 providers19 with public prices · 3 subscription-covered
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Token Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | ||
| SCNet Token Plan Qwen3.8-Max | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | — | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | ||
| Alibaba Token Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | ||
| Deep Infra Qwen/Qwen3.8-Max | Cloud | $1.65 | $4.95 | $0.206 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| AIHubMix | Gateway | $1.69 | $5.07 | $0.169 | $2.11 | 991,000 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $1.78 | $5.33 | $0.222 | $2.22 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| Requesty | Gateway | $1.80 | $5.40 | $0.225 | $2.25 | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| SCX.ai Qwen3.8-Max | Gateway | $1.81 | $5.45 | $0.17 | $2.50 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| CrossModel | Gateway | $1.88 | $5.63 | $0.23 | $2.35 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 991,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Deep Infra$404.27
2AIHubMix$408.98
3Alibaba (China) · Official$435.47
4SCX.ai$437.91
5Requesty$441.00
6CrossModel$459.50
3 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, SCNet Token Plan, Alibaba Token Plan (China)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to Deep Infra to save $31.20/mo (7%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = xhighbudget_tokens ≥ 0 ≤ 262,144effort = noneeffort = higheffort = maxeffort = minimal
2 / 22 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended