Qwen 3.8 Max

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Alibaba’s August 2026 frontier Max model on Model Studio: native multimodal (text, image, video) with a 1M-token context, up to 65K output, and hybrid reasoning via enable_thinking plus reasoning_effort (medium / xhigh). Built for agentic coding, tool use, and long-horizon multimodal workflows, with preserve_thinking for stable multi-turn agent context.

Intelligence

Exceptional

Speed

Fast

Price

$2.00 • $6.00

Input • Output

Input

Text, image, audio

Output

Text, image, audio

Qwen 3.8 Max is alibaba’s august 2026 frontier max model on model studio: native multimodal (text, image, video) with a 1m-token context, up to 65k output, and hybrid reasoning via enable_thinking plus reasoning_effort (medium / xhigh). built for agentic coding, tool use, and long-horizon multimodal workflows, with preserve_thinking for stable multi-turn agent context..

1,000,000 context window

65,536 max output tokens

Mid 2026 knowledge cutoff

Reasoning token support

Pricing

Pricing is based on the number of tokens used. For tool-specific models, like search and computer use, there's a fee per tool call. See details in the pricing page.

Text tokens

Per 1M tokens

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Batch API price

Input

$2.00

Cached input

$0.25

Output

$6.00

Quick comparison

Input

Cached input

Output

Qwen 3.8 Max

$2.00

Modalities

Text

Input and output

Image

Input only

Audio

Not supported

Endpoints

Chat Completions

v1/chat/completions

Responses

v1/responses

Batch

v1/batch

Realtime

v1/realtime

Assistants

v1/assistants

Fine-tuning

v1/fine-tuning

Embeddings

v1/embeddings

Image Generation

v1/images/generations

Image Edit

v1/images/edits

Speech Generation

v1/audio/speech

Transcription

v1/audio/transcriptions

Translation

v1/translations

Moderation

v1/moderations

Completions (legacy)

v1/completions

Features

Streaming

Supported

Function calling

Supported

Structured outputs

Not supported

Fine-tuning

Not supported

Distillation

Not supported

Fast response

Not supported

Cost efficient

Not supported

Tools

Tools supported by this model when using the Responses API.

Web search

Not supported

Code interpreter

Not supported

File search

Not supported

Image generation

Not supported

MCP

Not supported

Snapshots

Snapshots let you lock in a specific version of the model so that performance and behavior remain consistent. Below is a list of all available snapshots and aliases for Qwen 3.8 Max.

qwen3.8-max

Rate limits

Rate limits ensure fair and reliable access to the API by placing specific caps on requests or tokens used within a given time period. Your usage tier determines how high these limits are set and automatically increases as you send more requests and spend more on the API.