2026-09-02 upgraded snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max with stronger coding, collaborative agents, and multimodal document understanding
Qwen3.8 Max 0902 by alibaba is offered by 8 providers on this page. Its reference price is $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Ofox at $1.71 / $5.14 per 1M, about 1.2× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 1,000,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 991,000 to 1,000,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Video, and PDF.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ofox | Gateway | $1.71 | $5.14 | $0.17 | $2.14 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI qwen3-8-max-0902 | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $2.00 | — | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 991,808 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 991,000 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
| Ofox | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $2.00 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $2.50 | 1,000,000 | 131,072 |
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.