Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime

qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime

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...

Modalities

In / out price

$4 / $12 per 1M

Context

Released

Sep 23, 2026

Why use Qwen3.8 Max Prime

Understands images
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs
Very long context: whole books or codebases in one prompt

Pricing

Input	$4 / 1M tokens
Output	$12 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)	$0.5 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime	$0.027	$27.20	$27.20

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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