Qwen3.8 Max API price, and what each result really costs
Alibaba (Qwen), listed 3 Sept 2026. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it. Source: Alibaba (Qwen)'s pricing page. qwen/qwen3.8-max
List price per million tokens
- Input
- $2.00
- Cached input
- n/a
- Output
- $6.00
- Context window
- 1M tokens
Note: International (Singapore) price, single tier up to 1M input tokens. Cache: Alibaba states hits bill at 10% of input; OpenRouter's Alibaba endpoint shows $0.25, so left null.
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 | $7.80 | $9.75 | $13.00 | $19.50 |
| Invoice field extraction2,500 in / 250 out | $6.50 | $8.13 | $10.83 | $16.25 |
| Lead scoring1,200 in / 100 out | $3.00 | $3.75 | $5.00 | $7.50 |
| Email reply draft1,500 in / 400 out | $5.40 | $6.75 | $9.00 | $13.50 |
| Translation900 in / 800 out | $6.60 | $8.25 | $11.00 | $16.50 |
| Search re-ranking4,000 in / 50 out | $8.30 | $10.38 | $13.83 | $20.75 |
Work out your own real cost per resultTest Qwen3.8 Max on your own prompt
Compare Qwen3.8 Max with
- Qwen3.7 Plus$0.32 in / $1.28 outSwitch cost
- Qwen3.8 Flash$0.15 in / $0.47 outSwitch cost
- Grok 4.7$2.00 in / $6.00 outSwitch cost
- Mistral Medium 3.5$1.50 in / $7.50 outSwitch cost
- GPT-5$1.25 in / $10.00 outSwitch cost
Questions
How much does the Qwen3.8 Max API cost?
$2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 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 Max?
A support bot answer (about 3,000 tokens in, 300 out) costs $0.0078 per try. If 6 in 10 work first time, each answer that works really costs $0.013, because the redone ones were paid for too.