# Qwen3.8-Max API pricing

Qwen3.8-Max is one of Alibaba's newest models. It costs $2 per million tokens it reads and $6 per million it writes, $3 on a mix of 3 read for each 1 written. Below are every price Alibaba lists for it, what 8 everyday jobs cost a month on it, and the models that do as well for less.

- Page: https://tecyfy.com/prices/qwen3-8-max
- Maker: Alibaba

## Price per million tokens, in US dollars

| | Price |
| --- | --: |
| Input | $2 |
| Cached input | $0.25 |
| Cache write | not listed |
| Output | $6 |
| Blend, 3 read for each 1 written | $3 |
| Batch input | not listed |
| Batch output | not listed |
| Context window, tokens | not listed |
| Longest answer, tokens | not listed |
| Capability score (Epoch Capabilities Index; GPT-5 is 150) | 157 |

## What 8 everyday jobs cost a month

Each job at its usual runs a day, for 30 days, at the standard price.

| Job | Tokens in, out, runs a day | A run | A month |
| --- | --- | --: | --: |
| A chat question | 300, 500, 100 | 0.36 cents | $10.80 |
| A hard question, with thinking | 300, 1,400, 100 | 0.9 cents | $27.00 |
| A long report, summarised | 60,000, 2,000, 20 | 13 cents | $79.20 |
| A 40-turn agent task | 2,800,000, 40,000, 10 | $1.43 | $429 |
| A support bot's reply | 4,000, 300, 2,000 | 0.63 cents | $378 |
| Sort a message into a category | 250, 5, 50,000 | 0.053 cents | $795 |
| Read an invoice into fields | 1,500, 250, 1,000 | 0.45 cents | $135 |
| Review a pull request | 25,000, 4,500, 50 | 7.7 cents | $116 |

## Cheaper models that score as well as Qwen3.8-Max

- [Claude Haiku 5.5](https://tecyfy.com/prices/claude-haiku-5-5.md), Anthropic: $0.20 per million at 3:1, score 159
- [GPT-6 Luna](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gpt-6-luna.md), OpenAI: $0.20 per million at 3:1, score 156
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://tecyfy.com/prices/deepseek-flash.md), DeepSeek: $0.525 per million at 3:1, score 156
- [Gemini 3.8 Flash](https://tecyfy.com/prices/gemini-3-8-flash.md), Google: $1.50 per million at 3:1, score 157

## Questions

### How much does Qwen3.8-Max cost?

Qwen3.8-Max costs $2 per million input tokens, the text it reads, and $6 per million output tokens, the text it writes, thinking included. On a mix of 3 tokens read for each 1 written, that is $3 per million.

### How much does cached input cost on Qwen3.8-Max?

Text Qwen3.8-Max reads again from the cache costs $0.25 per million tokens, against $2 the first time. Alibaba lists no separate price for writing to the cache.

### Does Qwen3.8-Max have a batch price?

Not on Alibaba's price page, which lists no batch price for Qwen3.8-Max. The cache still lowers the price of text it reads again.

### How good is Qwen3.8-Max?

Qwen3.8-Max scores 157 on the Epoch Capabilities Index, an independent score from Epoch AI that combines over 50 benchmarks, with a range of doubt from 155 to 159 (GPT-5 is 150). One score is an average; test it on 10 tasks of your own.

### Is there a cheaper model as good as Qwen3.8-Max?

Claude Haiku 5.5 from Anthropic scores 159 on the Epoch Capabilities Index, about as well or better, and costs $0.20 per million on a mix of 3 tokens read for each 1 written: Qwen3.8-Max costs 15 times as much. Test both on your own work before you switch.

### Where does Qwen3.8-Max rank on price?

Qwen3.8-Max is the 9th cheapest of the 16 newest models we list, by the price of 3 tokens read for each 1 written.

### What does a support bot cost a month on Qwen3.8-Max?

At 2,000 replies a day, each reading 4,000 tokens (50 percent of them from cache) and writing 300, a support bot costs 0.63 cents a reply on Qwen3.8-Max, $378 a month.

### What does an AI agent task cost on Qwen3.8-Max?

One 40-turn task that reads 2,800,000 tokens in all, 90 percent of them from cache, and writes 40,000, costs $1.43 on Qwen3.8-Max. At 10 tasks a day that is $429 a month.

## Sources

- [Alibaba: API prices](https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/api)
- [Epoch Capabilities Index, by Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci)
- Every model's prices as [JSON](https://tecyfy.com/prices.json) or [CSV](https://tecyfy.com/prices.csv), free to use

## Compare

- [Qwen3.7-Max vs Qwen3.8-Max](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/qwen3-7-max-vs-qwen3-8-max.md)
- [Qwen3.7-Plus vs Qwen3.8-Max](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/qwen3-7-plus-vs-qwen3-8-max.md)
- [Qwen3.7-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Max](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/qwen3-7-flash-vs-qwen3-8-max.md)
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- [Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen3.8-Max](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/claude-sonnet-5-5-vs-qwen3-8-max.md)
- [Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen3.8-Max](https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-qwen3-8-max.md)
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## Alibaba's other models

- [Qwen3.8-Flash](https://tecyfy.com/prices/qwen3-8-flash.md)
- [Qwen3.7-Max](https://tecyfy.com/prices/qwen3-7-max.md)
- [Qwen3.7-Plus](https://tecyfy.com/prices/qwen3-7-plus.md)
- [Qwen3.7-Flash](https://tecyfy.com/prices/qwen3-7-flash.md)