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.
Key Specifications
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 131K tokens
- Inputs
- Text, image, video
- Capabilities Show details
- 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.
Hosted API pricing
| Provider | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens | Cost at 10M in + 2M out | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Alibaba Cloud
Creator
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$0.15 | $0.47 | $2.44 | View |
Novita
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$0.15 | $0.47 | $2.44 | View |
Together AI
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$0.15 | $0.47 | $2.44 | View |
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.
| Model | Blended / 1M | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Cutoff | vs Qwen3.8-Flash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Qwen3-235B-A22B Instruct (2507)
Alibaba Cloud
|
$0.1717 | $0.09 | $0.58 | 262K | −16% | |
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google Cloud
|
$0.175 | $0.13 | $0.40 | 256K | Jan 2025 | −14% |
Llama 3.3 70B
Meta
|
$0.175 | $0.13 | $0.40 | 128K | Dec 2023 | −14% |
Hy3
Tencent
|
$0.1967 | $0.13 | $0.53 | 262K | −3% | |
Ministral 3 14B
Mistral
|
$0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 | 256K | −2% | |
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Qwen3.8-Flash
This model
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.2033 | $0.15 | $0.47 | 1M | ||
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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% |
|
Mistral Small 4
Mistral
|
$0.225 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 256K | +11% | |
|
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Alibaba Cloud
|
$0.23 | $0.08 | $0.98 | 262K | +13% |
Prices are 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.
Frequently Asked 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.
More from Alibaba Cloud
| Model | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Qwen-MT-Turbo
|
16K | $0.16 | $0.49 |
|
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Open weights
|
262K | $0.08 | $0.98 |
|
Qwen3-235B-A22B Instruct (2507)
Open weights
|
262K | $0.09 | $0.58 |
|
Qwen3.5-Flash
|
1M | $0.10 | $0.40 |
|
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B Instruct
Open weights
|
262K | $0.20 | $0.70 |
|
Qwen2.5-7B Instruct
Open weights
|
33K | $0.30 | $0.30 |
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Qwen3-235B-A22B FP8
Open weights
|
33K | $0.20 | $0.80 |
|
Qwen3-30B-A3B FP8
Open weights
|
33K | $0.10 | $0.30 |