64% offQwen 3.8 Max API
Alibaba·Text· 99.8% success (7d)
Qwen 3.8 Max is Alibaba's flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE model, with major gains over Qwen 3.7 Max in software engineering and office-productivity workflows and strong long-horizon, multi-agent performance. It accepts both text and vision-language input (images and video), operates in thinking mode only, and supports a 1M-token context window.
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$2.50 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$7.50 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 6
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 131K
- Type
- Text
- Creator
- Alibaba
- Live sellers
- 161
- Requests / 24h
- 1,799
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-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Qwen 3.8 Max
Qwen 3.8 Max is a 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 and handling large contexts of up to 1M tokens. Its 1M-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 131K tokens in a single response.
As of Nov 4, 2026, Qwen 3.8 Max costs $0.891 per 1M input tokens and $3.57 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $2.50 / $7.50 on OpenRouter (64% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $3.57. Measured availability over the last 7 days: 99.8%. 161 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 1,799 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 Max API cost?
On Qubax, Qwen 3.8 Max costs $0.891 per 1M input tokens and $3.57 per 1M output tokens. This is 64% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $2.50 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Qwen 3.8 Max API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Qwen 3.8 Max 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 Max 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 — 64% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Qwen 3.8 Max.
How do I pay for Qwen 3.8 Max 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 Max?
Qwen 3.8 Max supports a context window of 1M tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Qwen 3.8 Max?
You can use Qwen 3.8 Max 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 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 Max on Qubax?
Measured time to first token (p95) on Qubax is 56.0s. Its 7-day success rate is 99.8%. Responses stream token by token. 161 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Qwen 3.8 Max vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: which should I choose?
Qwen 3.8 Max by Alibaba and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B by Other are both strong models in a similar price tier. Qwen 3.8 Max excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Qwen 3.8 Max starts at $0.891/1M input tokens while NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B comes in at $0.460/1M, so NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B may be worth considering if you need to minimize per-token cost. 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 Max for commercial projects?
Yes. Qwen 3.8 Max 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 Max on Qubax?
64% 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.