Output tokens cost $0.54 per million on Qwen3 Coder Flash and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.14 per million on Qwen3 Coder Flash and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.14 per million on Qwen3 Coder Flash and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 256,000 tokens on Qwen3 Coder Flash and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.9s on Qwen3 Coder Flash and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 57.5 tok/s on Qwen3 Coder Flash and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Qwen3 Coder Flash scores 1457 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.
Qwen3 Coder FlashQwen3.8 Max PreviewQwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and environment interaction, combining coding proficiency with versatile general-purpose abilities.
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 Coder Flash: $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: 1520; Qwen3 Coder Flash: 1457 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3 Coder Flash: 1.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Qwen3 Coder Flash accepts 256,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Qwen3 Coder Flash and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3 Coder Flash at 57.5 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Qwen3 Coder Flash accepts text input and supports 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.
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