Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash
by QwenQwen: Qwen3.8 Flash is a large language model from Qwen. It costs $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.470 per million output tokens. Its context window is 1M tokens.
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.150
- Output / 1M tokens
- $0.470
- Cached input / 1M
- $0.016
- Context window
- 1M
On repeated prefixes
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Who serves it cheapest
2 hosts serve Qwen3.8 Flash. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Throughput | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MakoraCheapestfp4 | $0.150 | $0.470 | 262K | - | 99.4% |
| Alibaba | $0.150 | $0.470 | 1M | - | 99.7% |
The spread between Makora and Alibaba is about the same for identical weights. Quantization and context limits differ, so check both columns before switching.
About Qwen3.8 Flash
Qwen3.8 Flash is a multimodal reasoning model from Alibaba. It is suited for coding assistance, agentic workflows, visual understanding, document and codebase analysis, desktop interaction, chart analysis, and long-video analysis.
Specifications
| Model ID | qwen/qwen3.8-flash |
|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 131K tokens |
| Input modalities | text, image, video |
| Output modalities | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | - |
| Open weights | Yes - Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| Released | August 26, 2026 |
Cheaper alternatives
Models that cost less than Qwen3.8 Flash while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.
Frequently asked
How much does Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash cost?
$0.150 per million input tokens and $0.470 per million output tokens. Cached input reads cost $0.016 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash?
1M tokens, with up to 131K tokens of output per request.
Which provider serves Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash cheapest?
Makora at $0.150 per million input tokens - about the same cheaper than Alibaba, the most expensive of the 2 hosts serving it.
Confirm against the source: Qwen official pricing.