Output tokens cost $1.20 per million on ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.40 per million on ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.40 per million on ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 139,000 tokens on ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.6s on ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 24.4 tok/s on ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewThe new version of the Wenxin Yiyan large model significantly improves capabilities in image understanding, creation, translation, and coding. It supports a context length of up to 32K tokens for the first time, with a notable reduction in the latency of the first token.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL: $1.20/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL accepts 139,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 16,000 tokens on ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL at 24.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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