Models

GPT 5 Chat vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $10.00 per million on GPT 5 Chat and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $1.25 per million on GPT 5 Chat and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.13 per million on GPT 5 Chat and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 400,000 tokens on GPT 5 Chat and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.8s on GPT 5 Chat and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 77.4 tok/s on GPT 5 Chat and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard GPT 5 Chat scores 1463 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.

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OpenAI logo
GPT 5 Chat
OpenAI · text, image → text

GPT-5 Chat points to the GPT-5 snapshot currently used in ChatGPT. GPT-5 is our next-generation, high-intelligence flagship model. It accepts both text and image inputs, and produces text outputs.

Input$1.25 /M
Output$10.00 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

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.

Input$0.34 /M
Output$1.01 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

GPT 5 Chat
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$1.25
$0.34
Output /M
$10.00
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.13
$0.03
Context length
400,000
983,616
Max output
128,000
131,072
Time to First Token
0.8 s
2.4 s
Throughput
77.4 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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1360142014801540
Overall
14271481
Coding
14631520
Math
14131504
Hard prompts
14491506
Instruction following
14171478
Multi-turn
14491496
Creative writing
13921469
Longer query
14361497
Chinese
14491545
English
14321486
Vision
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12001240128013201360
Overall
12251302
OCR
12451317
Diagram
12611331
Homework
12761335

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
GPT 5 Chat
$225 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GPT 5 Chat, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; GPT 5 Chat: $10.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; GPT 5 Chat: 1463 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

GPT 5 Chat: 0.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

GPT 5 Chat accepts 400,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GPT 5 Chat and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GPT 5 Chat at 77.4 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GPT 5 Chat accepts text and image input; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call GPT 5 Chat and Qwen3.8 Max Preview with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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