87% offQwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) API
Alibaba·Vision· 87.5% success (7d)
Qwen3.8 Max 0902 is an updated snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team. It is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that accepts text, image, and video input and returns text,...
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$6.00 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 9
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 131K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Alibaba
- Live sellers
- 180
- Requests / 24h
- 79
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="qwen3.8-max-0902",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction 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 Oct 20, 2026, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $0.268 per 1M input tokens and $0.805 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $2.00 / $6.00 on OpenRouter (87% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $0.94. Measured availability over the last 7 days: 87.5%. 180 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 79 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) API cost?
On Qubax, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $0.268 per 1M input tokens and $0.805 per 1M output tokens. This is 87% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $2.00 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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 — 87% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902).
How do I pay for Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)?
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)?
You can use Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) on Qubax?
Measured time to first token (p95) on Qubax is 42.9s. Its 7-day success rate is 87.5%. Responses stream token by token. 180 providers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B: which should I choose?
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) by Alibaba and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B by Other are both strong models in a similar price tier. Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) starts at $0.268/1M input tokens versus NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B's $0.374/1M — making Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) for commercial projects?
Yes. Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) on Qubax?
87% 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.