Output tokens cost $0.54 per million on ERNIE X1 Turbo and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.14 per million on ERNIE X1 Turbo and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.14 per million on ERNIE X1 Turbo and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 50,500 tokens on ERNIE X1 Turbo and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 10.0s on ERNIE X1 Turbo and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 18.2 tok/s on ERNIE X1 Turbo and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
ERNIE X1 Turbo
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewWenxin Large Model X1 possesses enhanced abilities in understanding, planning, reflection, and evolution. As a more comprehensive deep-thinking model, Wenxin X1 combines accuracy, creativity, and literary elegance, excelling particularly in Chinese knowledge Q&A, literary creation, document writing, daily conversations, logical reasoning, complex calculations, and tool invocation.
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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ERNIE X1 Turbo: $0.54/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
ERNIE X1 Turbo accepts 50,500 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 28,000 tokens on ERNIE X1 Turbo and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and ERNIE X1 Turbo at 18.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
ERNIE X1 Turbo accepts text input and supports thinking, 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.
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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