Qwen3.8-Flash Pricing
Alibaba · Released August 26, 2026. A 125B-parameter MoE that activates roughly 6B paramet
Save up to 70% on Qwen3.8-Flash API cost
Same model, same quality — pay less per token than the official API. Pay-as-you-go, no credit card required.
Other Alibaba Models
Qwen3.8-MaxQwen3-MaxQwen3.5-PlusQwen3.5-FlashQwen3-Coder-PlusQwen3-Coder-FlashQwen3-Coder-NextQwen3.8-Flash Pricing Context
Pricing position within Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Flash sits in the middle of Alibaba's pricing at $0.15/1M input — 75% below the lineup average ($0.07 cheapest, $2.00 most expensive). 2 siblings cost less, 5 cost more. This mid-tier positioning makes it a sensible default when you're unsure which variant to pick.
When Qwen3.8-Flash is worth the cost
Qwen3.8-Flash is used for text-to-video and image-to-video generation. You send a prompt or reference image, receive a video clip back. Common pipelines: marketing asset generation, storyboarding, social content, and visual prototyping. It doesn't handle text chat — route text workloads to a language model.
Cost vs sibling models
What makes Qwen3.8-Flash different from sibling models: compared to Qwen3.8-Max ($1.85/1M more expensive, 1M vs 262K context (larger)); Qwen3-Max ($1.05/1M more expensive, 252K vs 262K context (smaller)); Qwen3.5-Plus ($0.25/1M more expensive, 1M vs 262K context (larger)). Choose Qwen3.8-Flash when step-by-step reasoning matters more than speed.
Real-world cost scenarios
Real-world deployments: marketing video generation from product descriptions, social media content creation, storyboarding for video production, and visual prototyping for design teams. Qwen3.8-Flash outputs video clips directly — no separate rendering pipeline needed.