Compare GPT 5.1 Chat from OpenAI and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GPT 5.1 Chat
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewGPT-5.1 Chat refers to the GPT-5.1 snapshot currently used in ChatGPT and is optimized for conversational use cases. While GPT-5.1 is recommended for most API applications, GPT-5.1 Chat is ideal for testing the latest improvements in chat-based interactions.
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.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; GPT 5.1 Chat: $10.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; GPT 5.1 Chat: 1474 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GPT 5.1 Chat: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GPT 5.1 Chat accepts 128,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 16,384 tokens on GPT 5.1 Chat and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
GPT 5.1 Chat at 107.0 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.
GPT 5.1 Chat accepts text and image input and supports 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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