Qwen

Qwen3.8-Flash

Qwen's low-cost multimodal Flash model for coding, agent workflows, and visual understanding, with a 1M-token context window and controllable thinking.

ActiveReleased August 26, 2026
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: Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.8-Flash model info, QwenCloud model releases, QwenCloud text-generation model limits, QwenCloud visual understanding models, Alibaba Cloud context cache, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next open-weight model card

Price per 1M tokens via Alibaba (OpenRouter)
$0.16 in / $0.47 out
Context window1,000,000
Max output131,072
Cache read$0.016 / M
Min cache prefix256 tokens
ModalitiesText, Image, Video → Text

Pricing

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

Billing legRate
Input$0.16 / M
Output$0.47 / M
Cache read$0.016 / M

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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
$60.20
at current list prices
Fresh input$32.00
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$28.20
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Provider

Where this model runs, and what it charges.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
Alibaba
$0.16$0.47$0.016—via OpenRouter

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $0.16 / $0.47 per 1M since August 27, 2026.

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