Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Alibaba's open-weight preview of the architecture it says will underpin Qwen4: a 125B mixture-of-experts model with 6B active per token, under the Qwen Community 1.0 licence.

Params: 125B, 6B active
Context: 262K tokens
Max output: 131K
Released: Aug 2026
License: Qwen Community 1.0

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Hosted API price

Cheapest via Lyceum · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.20 /1M
Output: $0.50 /1M
Hosted by: 2 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-Next, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, 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
Lyceum	$0.20	$0.50	$0.05	$3.00	Visit website
Alibaba Cloud Creator	Open weights, no hosted price				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.

Estimated cost to self-host

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next needs about 72 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 4× RTX 3090 at about $864 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 3B tokens a month on Lyceum's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 262K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	72 GB77 GB	4× RTX 3090	$864$864	3B tokens /mo3B tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	128 GB133 GB	8× RTX 3090	$1,728$1,728	7B tokens /mo7B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	253 GB258 GB	8× RTX A6000	$3,629$3,629	15B tokens /mo15B tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

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

Models priced nearest Qwen3.8-Flash-Next per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.225	$0.17	$0.50	262K		−10%
Qwen3-Coder-Next Alibaba Cloud	$0.2283	$0.078	$0.98	262K		−9%
Llama 4 Scout Meta	$0.24	$0.16	$0.64	10M	Aug 2024	−4%
Qwen3-32B FP8 Alibaba Cloud	$0.24	$0.16	$0.64	33K		−4%
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Alibaba Cloud	$0.2487	$0.115	$0.917	262K		−1%
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.25	$0.20	$0.50	262K
Llama 4 Maverick Meta	$0.2827	$0.20	$0.696	1M	Aug 2024	+13%
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.2833	$0.20	$0.70	262K		+13%
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta	$0.30	$0.20	$0.80	131K	Jan 2026	+20%
Qwen2.5-7B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.30	$0.30	$0.30	33K		+20%
Qwen3-235B-A22B FP8 Alibaba Cloud	$0.30	$0.20	$0.80	33K		+20%

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-Next 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.

Common questions

What is Qwen3.8-Flash-Next good for?

Text, image and video agent and coding work you run yourself, with thinking on by default and a reasoning effort setting. Qwen Community 1.0 weights, on a multi-GPU node.

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

Audio input or image output, and there is no built-in web search, though a host or your own tool loop can add one. It takes a multi-GPU node, and Alibaba calls it an experimental preview, with the hosted Qwen3.8-Flash carrying the production features instead.

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

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Lyceum charges $0.20 in / $0.50 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 4x RTX 3090 at $864 a month, which costs the same as about 3B tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

Yes. The weights are Qwen Community 1.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 72 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $864 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.