Compare Qwen3.5 Flash 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.
Qwen3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Max PreviewThe Qwen3.5 native vision-language Flash series models are designed with a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms and sparse mixture-of-experts models, achieving higher inference efficiency. Compared with the 3 series, the models deliver leapfrog improvements in both pure-text and multimodal performance; they respond quickly and combine inference speed with high performance.
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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Qwen3.5 Flash: $0.28/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Qwen3.5 Flash: 1437 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3.5 Flash: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Qwen3.5 Flash accepts 991,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Qwen3.5 Flash and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3.5 Flash at 61.7 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.
Qwen3.5 Flash accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking; 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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