Qwen 3.8 Max Prime: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen 3.8 Max Prime is a text model by Alibaba. 3 providers serve it, from $12 to $12.70 /1M; the lowest price is at Vercel AI Gateway.
How Qwen 3.8 Max Prime compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Pricey for its class: at $12 /1M, its lowest price is above 89% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 1M-token context window is larger than 67% of them (median 262K), about 1500 pages of text.
- 3 providers serve it; 52% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen 3.8 Max Prime 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.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $4/1M | $12/1M | $0.50/1M | 1M |
| OpenRouter | $4/1M | From$12/1M | $0.50/1M | 1M |
| AI/ML API | $4.23/1M | $12.70/1M | $0.529/1M | — |
- Vercel AI Gateway$12
- OpenRouterFrom$12
- AI/ML API$12.70
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1M≈ 1500 pages of text
- Max output
- 131K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Sep 23, 2026
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Monthly searches
- 2K
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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The lowest price for Qwen 3.8 Max Prime is $12 /1M, at Vercel AI Gateway.
Vercel AI Gateway, at $12 /1M. 3 providers serve Qwen 3.8 Max Prime; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen 3.8 Max Prime reads up to 1M tokens per request and writes up to 131K.
We have not found Qwen 3.8 Max Prime's weights published by its maker.
3 API providers serve Qwen 3.8 Max Prime. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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