Compare Qwen3 VL Plus 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.
Qwen3 VL PlusQwen3.8 Max PreviewThe Qwen3 series visual understanding model achieves an effective fusion of thinking and non-thinking modes. Its visual agent capabilities reach world-class levels on public test sets such as OS World. This version features comprehensive upgrades in visual coding, spatial perception, and multimodal reasoning; visual perception and recognition abilities are greatly enhanced, supporting ultra-long video understanding.
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.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Qwen3 VL Plus: $1.37/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3 VL Plus: 2.3s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Qwen3 VL Plus accepts 256,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL Plus and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3 VL Plus at 66.5 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.
Qwen3 VL Plus 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.
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