Models

O3 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $8.00 per million on O3 and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on O3 and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on O3 and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 200,000 tokens on O3 and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 6.5s on O3 and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 40.3 tok/s on O3 and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard O3 scores 1459 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.

OpenAIO3QwenQwen3.8 Max Preview
OpenAI logo
O3
OpenAI · text, image → text

OpenAI o3 is a powerful model across multiple domains, setting a new standard for coding, math, science, and visual reasoning tasks.

Input$2.00 /M
Output$8.00 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

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.

Input$0.34 /M
Output$1.01 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

O3
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$2.00
$0.34
Output /M
$8.00
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.50
$0.03
Context length
200,000
983,616
Max output
100,000
131,072
Time to First Token
6.5 s
2.4 s
Throughput
40.3 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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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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Tokens / day

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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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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
o3qwen3.8-max-preview
1360142014801540
Overall
14311481
Coding
14591520
Math
14471504
Hard prompts
14401506
Instruction following
14021478
Multi-turn
14181496
Creative writing
13831469
Longer query
14081497
Chinese
14641545
English
14381486
Vision
o3qwen3.8-max-preview
12001240128013201360
Overall
12171302
OCR
12221317
Diagram
12301331
Homework
12471335

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

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

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
O3
$240 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: O3, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; O3: $8.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; O3: 1459 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

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.

How large is each context window?

O3 accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 100,000 tokens on O3 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and O3 at 40.3 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

O3 accepts text and image 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.

Can I call O3 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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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