Qwen 3.8 Max(qwen3.8-max) is Alibaba Cloud’s flagship native vision-language model, built on a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supporting context windows of up to 1 million tokens. It is well suited for complex multimodal understanding, advanced reasoning, software development, agentic workflows, and long-context processing. At a similar price to Qwen3.7-Max, Qwen3.8-Max delivers significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities, with overall performance comparable to today’s leading models.
qwen3.8-max vs qwen3.8-max-preview
Output tokens cost $5.07 per million on qwen3.8-max and $1.01 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Input tokens cost $1.69 per million on qwen3.8-max and $0.34 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.17 per million on qwen3.8-max and $0.03 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Context windows are 991,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max and 983,616 tokens on qwen3.8-max-preview. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 3.5s on qwen3.8-max and 2.4s on qwen3.8-max-preview. Measured output throughput is 37.1 tokens/s on qwen3.8-max and 48.1 tokens/s on qwen3.8-max-preview.
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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FAQ
Which is cheaper: qwen3.8-max, qwen3.8-max-preview?
qwen3.8-max-preview: $1.01/M output tokens; qwen3.8-max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
qwen3.8-max-preview: 2.4s first-token latency 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-max accepts 991,000 and qwen3.8-max-preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max and 131,072 tokens on qwen3.8-max-preview.
Which one generates tokens faster?
qwen3.8-max-preview at 48.1 tokens/s and qwen3.8-max at 37.1 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
qwen3.8-max accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking; 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 qwen3.8-max 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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