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Qwen3.8-Flash: release date and what it's for

Released , according to Alibaba's announcement. Fifteen cents a million with a million tokens of context. The cheapest million-token window in this whole catalogue.

Status
Live
Released
Lab
Alibaba
Input
$0.15per million tokens
Output
$0.47per million tokens
Context window
1Mtokens
Max output
131Ktokens

API model ID: qwen3.8-flash

What we've written about Qwen3.8-Flash

September 23, 2026

Qwen models explained: Qwen3.8 Max, Flash and 27B, open weights vs API, with release dates

Alibaba put its Max-class Qwen out as open weights for the first time, and skipped open weights for Qwen3.7 entirely.

How Qwen3.8-Flash compares on price and context

Price per million tokens

inputoutput

  1. GPT-6 Astra$10 / $50
  2. Qwen3.8-Max$2 / $6
  3. Muse Spark 1.3$1.25 / $4.25
  4. Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.75 / $3.75
  5. Qwen3.8-Flash$0.15 / $0.47
Context window, in tokens

how much it reads at once

  1. GPT-6 Astra1.05M
  2. Muse Spark 1.31.05M
  3. Gemini 3.8 Flash1.05M
  4. Qwen3.8-Flash1M
  5. Qwen3.8-Max1M

Next to the newest Alibaba models and the current model from other labs. Prices are in US dollars per million tokens.

What is Qwen3.8-Flash?

Qwen3.8-Flash is a model from Alibaba, built in China. It's out, and you can use it today.

When did Qwen3.8-Flash come out?

Alibaba released it on August 27, 2026. That date comes from Alibaba's announcement.

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