Qwen / Alibaba Open Weights Live Rates • October 2026

Qwen3.8 Max Prime Pricing & Token Economics

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. It accepts text, image, and video...

Context Window 1M
Max Completion 131K Tokens
Inference Speed Fast
CostRatio Score C

Normalized Token Pricing Matrix

Real-time input, completion, and cache rates normalized to $/1M tokens.

📥 Prompt Tokens
$ 4.00 / 1M tokens

Cost for prompts, instructions, document retrieval, and system context sent into the model.

~$0.0040 per 1K tokens
📤 Completion Tokens
$ 12.00 / 1M tokens

Cost for generated text, code, tool calls, and structured JSON responses returned by the model.

~$0.0120 per 1K tokens
⚡ Prompt Caching
$ 0.500 / 1M tokens

Massive 88% savings on repeated context, documents, and system instructions.

Cached Read Discount
⚖️ 3:1 Blended Benchmark
$ 6.000 / 1M tokens

Standard industry benchmark assuming 75% prompt reads and 25% completion generation.

Weighted Benchmark

Qwen3.8 Max Prime Monthly Bill Estimator

Estimated monthly costs across four standardized enterprise and developer workloads.

Workload Scenario Monthly Token Volume Standard Bill With Prompt Caching
💬
Customer Support Chatbot
10M prompt tokens + 2.5M output tokens per month
12.5M tokens (10M in / 2.5M out) $70.00/mo $45.50/mo -35%
📑
Document Analysis & RAG
30M prompt tokens (PDFs/context) + 3M output summaries
33.0M tokens (30M in / 3M out) $156.00/mo $82.50/mo -47%
💻
Coding Agent / IDE Swarm
60M prompt tokens (repo context) + 15M code completions
75.0M tokens (60M in / 15M out) $420.00/mo $273.00/mo -35%
🤖
Enterprise Agentic Workflow
120M prompt tokens (reasoning loops) + 30M output actions
150.0M tokens (120M in / 30M out) $840.00/mo $546.00/mo -35%

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Architecture & Capabilities

Technical parameters, supported modalities, and optimal developer use cases.

🎯 Recommended Use Cases

Top-tier multilingual intelligence, complex math problem solving, open model fine-tuning

Supported Modalities

📝 Text 👁️ Vision & Images 🛠️ Function / Tool Calling

📐 Context & Output Limits

  • Maximum Context Window: 1,000,000 tokens (1M)
  • Maximum Output Length: 131,072 tokens
  • Speed / Latency Tier: Fast
  • Official Provider: Qwen / Alibaba

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Qwen3.8 Max Prime API pricing and token calculations.

How much does Qwen3.8 Max Prime cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen3.8 Max Prime charges $4.00 per 1M input tokens and $12.00 per 1M output tokens. For standard balanced workloads (3:1 input:output ratio), the effective blended rate is $6.000/1M tokens.

Does Qwen3.8 Max Prime support prompt caching?

Yes. Cached prompt reads are billed at $0.5000 per 1M tokens, saving you up to 88% on repeated context, RAG documents, and system instructions.

What is Qwen3.8 Max Prime's maximum context window?

Qwen3.8 Max Prime supports up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) in its context window, allowing you to ingest large files and multi-turn chat history with up to 131,072 tokens generated per response.

How does Qwen3.8 Max Prime compare to other models?

With a CostRatio rating of C, Qwen3.8 Max Prime provides competitive token economics for open weights tasks. Review the peer comparison table above to compare input and completion rates directly against alternative models.

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