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Qwen3.8 Max (Alibaba Cloud)
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.8-max-4·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
Reference price$2.00 / $6.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.25 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$2.00 / $6.00
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context1,000,000
Output limit131,072
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-08-03 / 2026-08-03
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway alibaba/qwen3.8-max | 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.
Your usage cost
1LLM Gateway$490.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = xhighbudget_tokens
Related models
Qwen3.5 0.8Bsame series$0.06 / $0.12Qwen3.5 4Bsame series$0.10 / $0.20Qwen3.8 27B TEEsame series$0.40 / $3.00DeepSeek V4 Procheaper alternative$0.435 / $0.87DeepSeek V4 Flashcheaper alternative$0.14 / $0.28DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731cheaper alternative$0.479 / $1.44MiniMax-M3cheaper alternative$0.30 / $1.20
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $2.00Output list $6.00Min blended $3.00
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.