Qwen3.8 Max API Pricing
Alibaba · released Aug 3, 2026 · 1M context · API model ID qwen3.8-max
Qwen3.8 Max by Alibaba API pricing: $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).
Prices
| Price | USD per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 |
| Output | $6.00 |
| Cache read | $0.25 |
| Cache write | $2.50 |
Alibaba's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation
Estimated monthly cost
$1,500
per month
- per day
- $50.00
- per request
- $0.005
Cannot estimate: a needed price is not published.
Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.
Monthly cost by workload
| Workload | Per month |
|---|---|
| Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day | $1,500/mo |
| RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day | $2,850/mo |
| Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input | $1,260/mo |
Context and capabilities
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Input
- text, image, video, pdf
- Output
- text
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Structured outputs
- Yes
Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.
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Price history
No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.
Questions
- How much does Qwen3.8 Max cost per month?
- For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen3.8 Max costs about $1,500 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($2.00 per 1M input tokens, $6.00 per 1M output tokens).
- Does Qwen3.8 Max support prompt caching?
- Yes. Cached input costs $0.25 per 1M tokens, compared with $2.00 for regular input. Writing to the cache costs $2.50 per 1M tokens.
- How long is Qwen3.8 Max's context window?
- Qwen3.8 Max accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 131,072 tokens per response.