Qwen3.8 Flash is Alibaba Cloud Qwen’s flagship native vision-language model for coding, office tasks, long-context reasoning, and agent workflows. It supports a 1M-token context, 128K output, web access, and tool calling. Compared with Qwen3.7-Plus, Qwen3.8-Flash significantly reduces training and inference costs—the training overhead is only about one-ninth of the former—while offering stronger capabilities on coding and office tasks.
Qwen3.8 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Flash (free)
Compare Qwen3.8 Flash from Qwen and Qwen3.8 Flash (free) 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.
Qwen3.8 Flash is available for free on AIHubMix as part of GMI Cloud’s promotional campaign. The offer lasts for 30 days from launch or until the campaign credits are exhausted, whichever comes first.
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
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FAQ
Which responds faster?
Qwen3.8 Flash (free): 3.3s 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?
Qwen3.8 Flash accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Flash (free) accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Flash and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Flash (free).
Which one generates tokens faster?
Qwen3.8 Flash (free) at 63.1 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Flash at 53.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Qwen3.8 Flash accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking; Qwen3.8 Flash (free) accepts text, image and video input.
Can I call Qwen3.8 Flash and Qwen3.8 Flash (free) 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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