Qwen3.8 Flash API price, and what each result really costs
Alibaba (Qwen), listed 26 Aug 2026. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it. Source: Alibaba (Qwen)'s pricing page. qwen/qwen3.8-flash
List price per million tokens
- Input
- $0.15
- Cached input
- n/a
- Output
- $0.47
- Context window
- 1M tokens
Note: International (Singapore) price.
What it costs per task, and per task that works
Six common task shapes with typical token counts. The real cost counts the tries that get redone; the rates are examples, not measurements.
| Task | Per 1,000 tries | Per 1,000 that work, 8 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 6 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 4 in 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answer3,000 in / 300 out | $0.59 | $0.74 | $0.98 | $1.48 |
| Invoice field extraction2,500 in / 250 out | $0.49 | $0.62 | $0.82 | $1.23 |
| Lead scoring1,200 in / 100 out | $0.23 | $0.28 | $0.38 | $0.57 |
| Email reply draft1,500 in / 400 out | $0.41 | $0.52 | $0.69 | $1.03 |
| Translation900 in / 800 out | $0.51 | $0.64 | $0.85 | $1.28 |
| Search re-ranking4,000 in / 50 out | $0.62 | $0.78 | $1.04 | $1.56 |
Work out your own real cost per resultTest Qwen3.8 Flash on your own prompt
Compare Qwen3.8 Flash with
- Qwen3.7 Plus$0.32 in / $1.28 outSwitch cost
- Qwen3.8 Max$2.00 in / $6.00 outSwitch cost
- GLM-5.3 Flash$0.15 in / $0.50 outSwitch cost
- GPT-6 Luna$0.10 in / $0.50 outSwitch cost
- Claude Haiku 5.5$0.10 in / $0.50 outSwitch cost
Worked-through switches: GPT-4o mini → Qwen3.8 Flash: cost and quality on real tasks
Questions
How much does the Qwen3.8 Flash API cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it.
What does a result that works really cost with Qwen3.8 Flash?
A support bot answer (about 3,000 tokens in, 300 out) costs $0.00059 per try. If 6 in 10 work first time, each answer that works really costs $0.00098, because the redone ones were paid for too.