100% offQwen 3.8 27B API
Alibaba·Vision
Qwen 3.8 27B is Qwen’s open-weight dense vision-language model for coding, professional workflows, research, multimodal interaction, and long-running agent tasks.
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.200 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 10
Specifications
- Context window
- 262K
- Max output
- 66K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Alibaba
- Live sellers
- 261
- Requests / 24h
- 45,978
Price history · 60 days
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen-3-8-27b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Qwen 3.8 27B
Qwen 3.8 27B is a multimodal language model developed by Alibaba. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, grounding responses in real-time web search results, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 262K tokens. Its 262K-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 66K tokens in a single response.
As of Oct 28, 2026, Qwen 3.8 27B costs $0.0003 per 1M input tokens and $0.0038 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $0.200 / $2.50 on OpenRouter (100% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $0.00. 261 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 45,978 requests on Qubax in the last 24 hours. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the Qwen 3.8 27B API cost?
On Qubax, Qwen 3.8 27B costs $0.0003 per 1M input tokens and $0.0038 per 1M output tokens. This is 100% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $0.200 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Qwen 3.8 27B API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Qwen 3.8 27B as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Qwen 3.8 27B cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 100% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Qwen 3.8 27B.
How do I pay for Qwen 3.8 27B API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Qwen 3.8 27B?
Qwen 3.8 27B supports a context window of 262K tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Qwen 3.8 27B?
You can use Qwen 3.8 27B to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, answer questions with real-time web search, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Qwen 3.8 27B on Qubax?
Responses stream token by token. 261 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Qwen 3.8 27B vs MiniMax M2.1: which should I choose?
Qwen 3.8 27B by Alibaba and MiniMax M2.1 by MiniMax are both strong models in a similar price tier. Qwen 3.8 27B excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. MiniMax M2.1 comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Qwen 3.8 27B starts at $0.0003/1M input tokens versus MiniMax M2.1's $0.0005/1M — making Qwen 3.8 27B the more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Qwen 3.8 27B for commercial projects?
Yes. Qwen 3.8 27B on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Qwen 3.8 27B on Qubax?
100% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.