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Auto vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Auto from OpenAI and Qwen3.8 Max 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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Auto
OpenAI · text, audio, image, video → text

AIHubMix Smart Router: Fill in the model name as auto, and the gateway will automatically select the optimal model based on the request content; The auto without a suffix uses the default strategy cost_optimized. You can explicitly specify the focus using auto:<strategy>, such as auto (= auto:cost_optimized) cost priority: choose the cheapest as long as the capability meets the standard; auto:balanced balanced: considers capability / cost / latency auto:quality_first quality priority: prioritize selecting the strongest capability for complex reasoning and critical outputs auto:latency_critical low latency priority: prioritize selecting the fastest response

Input$2 /M
Output$2 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Auto
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$2
$1.69
Output /M
$2
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
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12.5 s
Throughput
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28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textaudioimagevideo
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingwebdeepsearchtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
January 1, 2024
August 3, 2026

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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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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Uptime (%)

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Cost calculator

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

Auto
$150 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Auto, Qwen3.8 Max?

Auto: $2/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How large is each context window?

Auto accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Auto accepts text, audio, image and video input and supports thinking, web search, deep search, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Auto and Qwen3.8 Max 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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