Qwen3.8 Max Preview
by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat
Preview Qwen flagship for million-token multimodal reasoning and long-horizon agentic workflows
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Released
- 2026-07-19
- Weights
- Closed
alibaba/qwen3-8-max-preview · also seen as qwen/qwen3.8-max-preview, qwen-3-8-max, alibaba/qwen3.8-max, qwen3.8-max
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-07-19
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, Video
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,000,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 4 + 4 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $2.00–$2.50 in · $6.00–$7.50 out per 1M tokens · 2 of 4 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-07-19
- Knowledge cutoff
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M tokens at Charm Hyper on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Nano Banana ProGoogle | $1.83 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 65.5K | −11% cheaper |
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