Qwen 3.8 Max Prime
by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat
High-throughput edition of Qwen3.8 Max for coding, professional work, multimodal understanding, and long-running agent workflows
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Released
- 2026-09-23
- Weights
- Closed
alibaba/qwen3-8-max-prime · also seen as qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime, qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime-20260923
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-09-23
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,000,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 2 + 4 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $4.00–$5.50 in · $12.00–$16.50 out per 1M tokens · across all 2 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-09-23
- 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 caching
- 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 $4.00 in / $12 out per 1M tokens at Alibaba 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
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