Alibaba · Frontier
Qwen 3.8 Max
Alibaba's flagship, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token window and image understanding. An upgraded snapshot (qwen3.8-max-0902) followed on 2 September 2026.
Model ID: qwen3.8-max
What that means
A worked example
Per-token pricing is hard to feel. Take a moderately chatty production workload: 100 calls a day, roughly 10,000 tokens in and 2,000 out each time. On Qwen 3.8 Max that comes to about:
$96 / month
Before caching, batching or volume discounts, all of which move this number a long way. Illustrative only.
Strong at
- -Coding
- -Long-horizon agents
- -Multilingual
Typical use
- -Multilingual applications
- -APAC deployments
- -Office and professional tasks
Watch out for
- -Open-weight sibling Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is sold at the same price
Same tier
What else to look at
| Model | Developer | Context | In / 1M | Out / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 1M | $10 | $50 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | 1M | $4 | $20 |
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 1M | $10 | $50 |
| Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | 1M | $5 | $25 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 1M | $5 | $25 |
Verified 2026-10-11.