Output tokens cost $8.00 per million on mai-thinking-1 and $1.01 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on mai-thinking-1 and $0.34 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $2.00 per million on mai-thinking-1 and $0.03 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Context lengths are 256,000 tokens on mai-thinking-1 and 983,616 tokens on qwen3.8-max-preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 6.7s on mai-thinking-1 and 2.4s on qwen3.8-max-preview. Measured output throughput is 41.7 tok/s on mai-thinking-1 and 48.1 tok/s on qwen3.8-max-preview.
mai-thinking-1
qwen3.8-max-previewMAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft’s first inference model in the MAI series, built for enterprise-scale workloads. With excellent reasoning, mathematical, and general intelligence capabilities, combined with superior cost-effectiveness, it makes high-throughput, 24/7 AI workloads economically viable.
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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qwen3.8-max-preview: $1.01/M output tokens; mai-thinking-1: $8.00/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.
mai-thinking-1 accepts 256,000 and qwen3.8-max-preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 256,000 tokens on mai-thinking-1 and 131,072 tokens on qwen3.8-max-preview.
qwen3.8-max-preview at 48.1 tok/s and mai-thinking-1 at 41.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
mai-thinking-1 accepts text input and supports thinking 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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