Compare Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct from Qwen and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructQwen3.8 Max PreviewThe Qwen3-VL series’ second-largest MoE model Instruct version offers fast response speed and supports ultra-long contexts such as long videos and long documents; it features comprehensive upgrades in image/video understanding, spatial perception, and universal recognition abilities; it also provides visual 2DD/3D localization capabilities, making it capable of handling complex real-world tasks.
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.
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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: $0.41/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 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 1466 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct accepts 128,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct at 41.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct accepts text, image and video 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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