Models

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct from Qwen 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.

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Qwen · text, image, video → text

The Qwen3 series open-source models include hybrid models, thinking models, and non-thinking models, with both reasoning capabilities and general abilities reaching industry SOTA levels at the same scale.

Input$0.27 /M
Output$1.10 /M
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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.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$0.27
$0.34
Output /M
$1.10
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.27
$0.03
Context length
131,000
983,616
Max output
33,000
131,072
Time to First Token
1.1 s
2.4 s
Throughput
57.0 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
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
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructqwen3.8-max-preview
13401400146015201580
Overall
14151481
Coding
14661520
Math
14111504
Hard prompts
14401506
Instruction following
14141478
Multi-turn
14261496
Creative writing
13621469
Longer query
14251497
Chinese
14551545
English
14271486
Vision
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructqwen3.8-max-preview
1180124013001360
Overall
12151302
OCR
12301317
Diagram
12391331
Homework
12601335

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 VL 235B A22B Instruct
$32.88 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: $1.10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1466 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1.1s 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?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts 131,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 33,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 57.0 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.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts text, image and video 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.

Can I call Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 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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