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Qwen3.8 27B: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby AlibabaApache 2.0Released Aug 5, 2026

Qwen3.8 27B is a text model by Alibaba. 33 providers serve it, from $0.50 to $4 /1M; the lowest price is at Opper.

Lowest price$0.50/1Mat Opper
Maker's price$3/1M83% more than the lowest
Providers33
Context262KMax output 131K

How Qwen3.8 27B compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.50 /1M against a median of $1.10; 34% of comparable models cost less.
  • Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
  • On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #24 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
  • 33 providers serve it; 99% of comparable models have fewer.
  • Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.

Qwen3.8 27B prices by provider

Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
Opper$0.17/1M$0.50/1M$0.05/1M—
EmpirioLabs AI$0.17/1M$0.50/1M$0.08/1M262K
Poe$0.172/1M$0.505/1M$0.081/1M262K
NEAR AI Cloud$0.04/1M$1.35/1M$0.018/1M262K
APIMart$0.343/1M$1.37/1M——
Hugging Face$0.99/1MFrom$1.49/1M——
Cerebras$0.99/1M$1.49/1M——
AIHubMix$1.10/1MFrom$1.65/1M—131K
Ofox$0.50/1M$1.71/1M$0.043/1M1.13M
LaoZhang API$0.429/1M$1.71/1M——
APIYI$0.44/1M$1.76/1M——
Deep Infra$0.15/1MFrom$1.88/1M$0.037/1M—
SiliconFlow$0.25/1M$2/1M——
TensorX$0.40/1M$2.40/1M$0.10/1M—
OrcaRouter$0.33/1MFrom$2.40/1M—262K
OpenRouter$0.20/1MFrom$2.50/1M$0.09/1M1M
Requesty$0.20/1MFrom$2.50/1M$0.05/1M262K
AlibabaOfficial$0.50/1MFrom$3/1M——
Novita AI$0.42/1M$3/1M$0.085/1M—
Charm Hyper$0.50/1M$3/1M$0.10/1M—
Vercel AI Gateway$0.50/1M$3/1M$0.10/1M1M
Atlas Cloud$0.50/1M$3/1M$0.05/1M—
ZenMux$0.50/1M$3/1M$0.05/1M1M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.42/1MFrom$3/1M$0.085/1M—
FastRouter$0.40/1M$3/1M$0.05/1M262K
Jiekou.AI$0.42/1M$3/1M$0.085/1M—
Impossibl$0.50/1M$3/1M$0.10/1M—
Cloudflare Workers AI$0.45/1M$3.20/1M——
Venice AI$0.45/1M$3.20/1M——
Neuralwatt$0.45/1M$3.20/1M$0.25/1M—
Prime Inference$0.99/1M$3.20/1M——
AI/ML API$0.476/1M$3.39/1M——
Groq$0.80/1M$4/1M——
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. Opper$0.50
  2. EmpirioLabs AI$0.50
  3. Poe$0.505
  4. NEAR AI Cloud$1.35
  5. APIMart$1.37
  6. Cerebras$1.49
  7. Hugging FaceFrom$1.49
  8. AIHubMixFrom$1.65
  9. Ofox$1.71
  10. LaoZhang API$1.71
  11. APIYI$1.76
  12. Deep InfraFrom$1.88
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 26, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Maker
Alibaba
Inputs
Image, Text, Video
Outputs
Text
Context
262K≈ 390 pages of text
Max output
131K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
Released
Aug 5, 2026
License
Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
Open weights
Yes, downloadable
Parameters
28B
Arena score
1591WebDev
Monthly searches
120K
Get the weightsHugging Face12.2M downloads in 30 days

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