Qwen3.8 Flash API pricing per million tokens
Qwen3.8 Flash costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output, with a 1M context window.
AIGROW credit covers Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, Grok 4.7 and Gemini 4 Argon. See API credit
$25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band.
- 1,000 support replies
- $0.64
- Cached input
- Not published
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Released
- Not published
- Weights
- Closed weights
From Alibaba (Qwen)’s own pages, 12 November 2026.
Qwen3.8 Flash costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens on Alibaba (Qwen)’s own API. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $0.64, the 4th cheapest of 49 priced models on our list. It reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once.
AIGROW API credit per million input / output tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 $1.60 / $8.00, Claude Fable 5.2 $3.20 / $16.00, Claude Fable 5.1 $4.00 / $20.00, GPT-6 Astra $2.50 / $12.50, Claude Sonnet 5.5 $0.80 / $4.00, GPT-6.1 Sol $0.50 / $2.50, GPT-6.1 Terra $0.25 / $1.25, Grok 4.7 $0.50 / $1.50 and Gemini 4 Argon $1.00 / $5.00. That is up to 75% below list price. See API credit
What a job costs
Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts Qwen3.8 Flash among the 49 models with a list price.
| Job | 1,000 runs | Among 49 |
|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $0.64 | 4th cheapest |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $4.22 | 4th cheapest |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $13.41 | 14th cheapest |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are Alibaba (Qwen)’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list. Alibaba (Qwen) publishes no cache price for this model, so the agent task bills its repeated context at the full input rate.
Qwen3.8 Flash on real small-business tasks
What the AIGROW benchmark measured when Qwen3.8 Flash was given 20 office tasks, each marked pass or fail by fixed checks.
- Success rate
- 95% of 20 runs passed (95% interval 76 to 99%), 1st of 36 models.
- Cost per 1,000 passes
- $1.09, failed runs included.
- Answer time
- 29 s median, 44 s at the 90th percentile.
- Strongest and weakest
- Appointment scheduling (100% passed) and quotes (50%).
The small print
What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
International deployment, one tier up to 1M input tokens. Cache discounts as for Qwen3.8 Max. Context taken from the top pricing tier (1M).
Qwen3.8 Flash against the models it is weighed with
Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.
- vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- Chinese budget APIs, with Qwen's list price about half of DeepSeek's peak rate.
- vs GLM-5.3-Flash
- Two new Chinese budget models priced within a few cents of each other.
Other Alibaba (Qwen) models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | 1,000 replies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.7 PlusAlibaba (Qwen) | $0.40 | $1.60 | 1M | $1.84 |
| Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights | $0.50 | $3.00 | 1M | $2.70 |
| Qwen3.8 MaxAlibaba (Qwen) | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M | $8.40 |
Where the price comes from
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Compare Qwen3.8 Flash with 53 other models
The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date