Qwen

Qwen3.8-27B

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Qwen's open-weight 27B dense vision-language model for coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks, with controllable thinking and native image and video understanding.

ActiveReleased August 14, 2026Available from 13 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: Qwen3.8-27B official model card, Qwen3.8-27B official configuration, OpenRouter Qwen3.8-27B endpoints

Price per 1M tokens via Novita (OpenRouter)
$0.42 in / $3 out
Context window262,144
Max output131,072
Cache read$0.085 / M
ModalitiesText, Image, Video → Text
Priced across13 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$0.42 / M
Output$3 / M
Cache read$0.085 / M

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$264
at current list prices
Fresh input$84.00
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$180
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
AkashmlLowest
$0.25$2.2$0.05-via OpenRouter
Parasail
$0.28$2.2$0.05-via OpenRouter
Darkbloom
$0.22$2.42--via OpenRouter
Reka
$0.24$2.55$0.15-via OpenRouter
Chutes
$0.32$2.5$0.032-via OpenRouter
Ionstream
$0.35$2.55$0.05-via OpenRouter
Alibaba
$0.425$2.55$0.085-via OpenRouter
Coreweave
$0.4$3$0.15-via OpenRouter
Phala
$0.4$3$0.05-via OpenRouter
Novita
$0.42$3$0.085-via OpenRouter
Io-net
$0.432$3.06$0.225-via OpenRouter
Cloudflare
$0.45$3.2$0.05-via OpenRouter
Venice
$0.45$3.2--via OpenRouter

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $0.42 / $3 per 1M since August 29, 2026.

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