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GPT-5.1-Codex Max vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare GPT-5.1-Codex Max 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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GPT-5.1-Codex Max
OpenAI · text, image → text

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is a frontier programming model built for the agent-driven era. Powered by an upgraded core reasoning architecture, it is specially trained for complex agentic tasks in software engineering, mathematics, and scientific research. It delivers faster performance, greater stability, and higher token efficiency across the entire development lifecycle, including code generation, refactoring, debugging, and engineering collaboration. With native support for multiple context windows and a built-in compaction mechanism, the model can coherently process millions of tokens within a single task.

Input$1.25 /M
Output$10 /M
Cache read$0.125 /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.

GPT-5.1-Codex Max
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$1.25
$1.69
Output /M
$10
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.125
$0.169
Context length
400,000
1,000,000
Max output
128,000
131,072
Time to First Token
2.7 s
12.5 s
Throughput
40.0 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
function callingstructured outputsthinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
November 13, 2025
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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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Cost calculator

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

Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
GPT-5.1-Codex Max
$225 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GPT-5.1-Codex Max, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; GPT-5.1-Codex Max: $10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

GPT-5.1-Codex Max: 2.7s 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?

GPT-5.1-Codex Max accepts 400,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GPT-5.1-Codex Max and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GPT-5.1-Codex Max at 40.0 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GPT-5.1-Codex Max accepts text and image input and supports function calling, structured outputs and thinking; 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 GPT-5.1-Codex Max 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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