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Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max on 3 Aug 2026. API list price: $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens.

The record

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Released

3 Aug 2026

Max tier, released through the API; open weights of a text-only version followed The lab’s announcement

API list price, per million tokens

$2.00 in $6.00 out

Singapore (international) region, inputs up to 1M tokens.

Alibaba’s pricing page, read 23 Oct 2026

On the free plan?

Not tracked

The Access Gap, which checks whether new models reach the free app plan, does not track this one.

Alibaba’s other recent models

data through 30 Oct 2026

  1. 2 Sep 2026 Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Upgraded snapshot of Qwen3.8-Max on the international and global API, aimed at long-horizon coding and multi-tool agent work; same price as Qwen3.8-Max
  2. 26 Aug 2026 Qwen3.8-Flash Fast, low-cost Qwen3.8 model on the international and global API; the smallest of Alibaba’s three tiers
  3. 19 Jul 2026 Qwen3.8-Max Preview 2.4T-parameter multimodal preview, only inside Alibaba’s coding and agent subscriptions (Token Plan, Qoder, QoderWork), not on the API; Qwen3.8-Max carries the dot
  4. 14 Apr 2026 Qwen3.6-Max-Preview Preview of the largest and most capable Qwen3.6 model, text only, on the international API
  5. 1 Apr 2026 Qwen3.6-Plus Plus tier of the Qwen3.6 vision-language series, on the international and global API; Qwen3.6-Flash and two small open models followed
  6. 23 Jan 2026 Qwen3-Max-Thinking Max-tier reasoning model (qwen3-max-2026-01-23) in Qwen Chat and the paid API
  7. 3 Nov 2025 Qwen3-Max-Thinking Preview Early preview of Qwen3-Max-Thinking, an intermediate checkpoint, in Qwen Chat and the API
  8. 11 Sep 2025 Qwen3-Next Ultra-sparse MoE architecture (80B, 3B active), open weights and on the API priced just above Plus

Qwen3.8-Max in Alibaba’s full release log · its row on the release chart

Release dates and notes come from the site’s release record, data through 30 Oct 2026; each links the lab’s own announcement. Prices are list prices as the lab’s pricing page printed them on the day shown, before any discount. Something wrong? Tell us.