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Qwen · Released Aug 26, 2026

Qwen3.8 Flash

Qwen3.8 Flash is a multimodal reasoning model from Alibaba. It is suited for coding assistance, agentic workflows, visual understanding, document and codebase analysis, desktop interaction, chart analysis, and long-video analysis.

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Released
Aug 26 2026
Context window
1M 131K out
Input / 1M tokens
$0.15
Output / 1M tokens
$0.47

Where to run it

Providers

All 1 providers charge the same: $0.15 / $0.47 per 1M input / output tokens.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
Alibabaus-east-1 $0.15 $0.47 $0.0161M131K100%24h Cheapest
Alibaba $0.15 $0.47 $0.0161M131K100%24h Cheapest

Value

Price vs. performance

2 models score higher for the same price or lesson GDP.pdf, e.g. GPT-6 Luna.
8.0%17.0%26.0%35.0% $0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) — 19.8% · $0.30/1M in Gemini 4 Argon (Google) — 28.4% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) — 35.0% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) — 31.4% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI) — 23.0% · $0.10/1M in GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) — 26.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) — 30.6% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.7 (xAI) — 22.8% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek) — 19.8% · $0.056/1M in GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) — 34.2% · $10.00/1M in Muse Spark 1.3 (Meta) — 27.6% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) — 23.4% · $0.82/1M in Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic) — 29.6% · $10.00/1M in GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai) — 14.0% · $0.047/1M in Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) — 23.8% · $0.75/1M in Grok 4.6 (xAI) — 17.2% · $2.00/1M in Muse Spark 1.2 (Meta) — 16.0% · $1.25/1M in Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) — 24.0% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google) — 14.0% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — 10.0% · $0.30/1M in Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) — 19.0% · $0.24/1M in Muse Spark 1.1 (Meta) — 15.0% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — 22.7% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — 24.7% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) — 30.7% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.5 (xAI) — 14.0% · $2.00/1M in Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — 30.0% · $10.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — 24.0% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — 14.0% · $1.50/1M in Grok 4.3 (xAI) — 8.0% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 26.0% · $5.00/1M in Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) — 12.0% · $0.65/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 21.0% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 17.0% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 18.0% · $3.00/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 10.0% · $0.50/1M in Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Qwen) — 23.2% · $2.00/1M in Qwen3.8 Flash (Qwen) — 16.6% · $0.15/1M in Qwen3.8 Flash

Qwen3.8 Flash Other Qwen Other labs Value frontier · GDP.pdf vs. input price per 1M tokens (log scale) · Drag to pan, pinch or Ctrl + scroll to zoom, double-click to zoom in.

Benchmarks

1 benchmark score

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
GDP.pdfWriting & content · Answer questions about real professional PDFs 16.6% #28of 38 GPT-6.1 Sol35.0%

Specs

Details

Model ID
qwen/qwen3.8-flash
Developer
Qwen
Release date
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
API price
$0.15 / $0.47 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
1
Input types
text, image, video
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Free tier
No

Release date, prices and providers from OpenRouter's catalog; buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.