Qwen3.8-Max: release date and what it's for
Released , according to Alibaba's announcement. Alibaba's flagship, at a third of what Fable 5.1 costs. Prices are region-scoped: this is the Singapore column, and Beijing is cheaper again.
- Status
- Live
- Released
- Lab
- Alibaba
- Input
- $2per million tokens
- Output
- $6per million tokens
- Context window
- 1Mtokens
- Max output
- 131Ktokens
API model ID: qwen3.8-max
What we've written about Qwen3.8-Max
Chinese AI labs published safety results for 3.6% of 857 models, SemiAnalysis finds
Only one of the nine developers, Zhipu, has published a safety result every year since 2022.
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.
Alibaba says Qwen ran a month of self-improvement unattended, and plans a 10-trillion-parameter model
Eddie Wu's keynote says the Qwen team has made meaningful progress on AI that improves itself, the trend Dario Amodei wants slowed.
How Qwen3.8-Max compares on price and context
inputoutput
- GPT-6 Astra$10 / $50
- Qwen3.8-Max$2 / $6
- Muse Spark 1.3$1.25 / $4.25
- Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.75 / $3.75
- Qwen3.8-Flash$0.15 / $0.47
how much it reads at once
- GPT-6 Astra1.05M
- Muse Spark 1.31.05M
- Gemini 3.8 Flash1.05M
- Qwen3.8-Max1M
- Qwen3.8-Flash1M
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-Max?
Qwen3.8-Max is a model from Alibaba, built in China. It's out, and you can use it today.
When did Qwen3.8-Max come out?
Alibaba released it on August 3, 2026. That date comes from Alibaba's announcement.
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Qwen3.8-Flash
- in /1M
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- out /1M
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- context
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Qwen3.8-27B
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Qwen3.7-Plus
- in /1M
- $0.40
- out /1M
- $1.60
- context
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