Qwen3.8 Max Prime is a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, served as a separate SKU at a higher price point.
Ways to buy 1
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The lab's own API · cached $0.5 | $4 | $12 | $4 / $12List price | $0.5 | List price |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $640.00 direct.
Kong AI Gateway$640.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$640.00+0%
OpenRouter$675.20+5.5%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Eden AINot offeredNot offered
HeliconeNot offeredNot offered
LiteLLMNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
RequestyNot offeredNot offered
TrueFoundry AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey.
Related models
| In / out per 1M | Cheapest route | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is an omni-modal reasoning model from Alibaba, the first Qwen model built around agentic capabilities with native audio-video understanding. |
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $2 | $6 | $2 / $6 | $3 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Qwen3.8 Max 0902 is an updated snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team. |
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Qwen3.8 Flash is a multimodal reasoning model from Alibaba. |
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1.02MCheapest: $0.069 on PrimeIntellect (fp8) | $0.425 | $2.55 | $0.425 / $2.55 | $0.956 | 1.02M | $0.069 on PrimeIntellect (fp8) | · | Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen. |
OpenAI · 1.05MCheapest: $2 on OpenAI (flex) | $2 | $10 | $2 / $10 | $4 | 1.05M | $2 on OpenAI (flex) | · | GPT-6.1 Sol is an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol from OpenAI, positioned below the flagship GPT-6 Astra in the GPT-6 series. |
Anthropic · 1M | $4 | $20 | $4 / $20 | $8 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Claude Opus 5. |
Google · 1MCheapest: $2 on Google Gemini API (flex) | $2 | $10 | $2 / $10 | $4 | 1M | $2 on Google Gemini API (flex) | · | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. |
Anthropic · 1M | $2 | $10 | $2 / $10 | $4 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade. |
About Qwen3.8 Max Prime
Takes text, image, video in and returns text. First listed Sep 24, 2026. Up to 131K output tokens. Blended price $6 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id qwen3-8-max-prime.
Price history
List price since Sep 24, 2026, from daily reads of the OpenRouter catalog.
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Questions
How much does Qwen3.8 Max Prime cost?
$4 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.5.
What is the context window of Qwen3.8 Max Prime?
1M tokens, with up to 131K tokens of output.