Qwen3.8-Flash

The low-cost tier of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 family, the hosted build of the open Qwen3.8-Flash-Next backbone, a 125B mixture-of-experts model with 6B active per token.

Context: 1M tokens
Max output: 131K

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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.15 /1M
Output: $0.47 /1M
Hosted by: 3 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Qwen3.8-Flash, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Qwen3.8-Flash, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$0.15	$0.47		$2.44	Visit website
Novita	$0.15	$0.47	$0.02	$2.44	Visit website
Together AI	$0.15	$0.47		$2.44	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen3.8-Flash by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3.8-Flash per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3.8-Flash
Qwen3-235B-A22B Instruct (2507) Alibaba Cloud	$0.1717	$0.09	$0.58	262K		−16%
Llama 3.3 70B Meta	$0.175	$0.13	$0.40	128K	Dec 2023	−14%
Qwen3.5-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.19	$0.09	$0.69	262K		−7%
Hy3 Tencent	$0.1967	$0.13	$0.53	262K		−3%
Ministral 3 14B Mistral	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	256K		−2%
Qwen3.8-Flash This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.2033	$0.15	$0.47	1M
Qwen3-VL-8B Alibaba Cloud	$0.2083	$0.15	$0.50	262K		+2%
Qwen-MT-Turbo Alibaba Cloud	$0.215	$0.16	$0.49	16K		+6%
Command R 08-2024 Cohere	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Jun 2024	+11%
GPT-4o Mini OpenAI	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Oct 2023	+11%
MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	205K		+11%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Qwen3.8-Flash accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Video Accepts video as input.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.

Common questions

What is Qwen3.8-Flash good for?

High-volume text, image and video work with Alibaba's built-in tools, as the low-cost tier of the Qwen3.8 lineup.

When is Qwen3.8-Flash not a good fit?

Self-hosting: the weights are closed, though its open backbone Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is available under the Qwen Community 1.0 licence and takes a multi-GPU node. No audio input or image output, and Alibaba lists fine-tuning as unsupported.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3.8-Flash?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.15 / $0.47 per 1M tokens via Alibaba Cloud.

How does Qwen3.8-Flash compare with Qwen3.7-Flash?

Same 1M-token context and text, image and video input. Qwen3.8-Flash lists at 400% more per 1M input tokens and 262% more per 1M output tokens than Qwen3.7-Flash.

Can I self-host Qwen3.8-Flash?

No. Alibaba Cloud does not publish the weights; Qwen3.8-Flash is available only through hosted APIs.