Alibaba route
qwen3.8-max
Qwen3.8 Max API pricing.
One OpenAI-compatible route at the vendor list price with 0% markup, billed per token from one prepaid balance. No subscription required. See the Qwen3.8-Max API pricing notes.
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
$6.00
Context window
1M
Provider
Alibaba
Workload calculator
Put the token rate into context.
These examples apply the published input and output rates directly. Actual cost follows the exact tokens your client sends and the model returns.
This route is the 38th cheapest of 55 comparable text models and cheaper than 15 on the same key. Its context window ranks 16th of 55.
Short request
$0.026
10K input + 1K output
Agent turn
$0.26
100K input + 10K output
Exact token billing
No request minimum
One model ID change
OpenAI compatible
Cost neighbourhood
Nearby routes, same workload.
Every comparison uses the same 100K-input / 10K-output turn. Changing route is a one-line model ID edit.
Price does not measure task quality. Check Qwen3.8 Max benchmark evidence before optimizing on cost alone. For generation routes, see GPT Image 2.
First request
Route it in one call.
Use any OpenAI SDK or tool. Keep the request shape, point the base URL at RouterPlex, and set the model ID shown here.
Read the quickstartcurl https://api.routerplex.com/v1/chat/completions \-H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERPLEX_API_KEY" \-H "Content-Type: application/json" \-d '{"model": "qwen3.8-max","messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'
Route notes
Questions before production traffic.
01How much does the Qwen3.8 Max API cost?+
Through RouterPlex, Qwen3.8 Max costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens — the vendor list price with 0% markup, billed per token from a prepaid balance you top up from $5. Alibaba publishes a discounted cache-read tier for this model. RouterPlex does not pass a separate cache tier through yet, so cached prompt tokens are billed at the standard $2 input rate.
02What does one Qwen3.8 Max agent turn cost?+
A 100K-token input with a 10K-token reply costs about $0.26 on Qwen3.8 Max. That makes it the 38th cheapest of 55 comparable text models on RouterPlex, roughly 24.1× the cost of the cheapest option (DeepSeek V4 Flash).
03What is a cheaper alternative to Qwen3.8 Max?+
Gemini 3.5 Flash from Google is the closest cheaper model on RouterPlex — $0.24 per agent turn against $0.26 for Qwen3.8 Max, at $1.50/1M input and $9.00/1M output. Both run on the same key and the same endpoint, so switching is a one-line model ID change.
04Is Qwen3.8 Max cheaper than Claude Sonnet 5?+
Yes. Per agent turn, Qwen3.8 Max costs about $0.26 against $0.30 for Claude Sonnet 5 — 13% less.
05What is the context window of Qwen3.8 Max?+
Qwen3.8 Max supports a 1M token context window on RouterPlex, the 16th largest of the 55 models that publish one.
06Can I use Qwen3.8 Max with the OpenAI SDK?+
Yes. RouterPlex serves Qwen3.8 Max through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint at https://api.routerplex.com/v1 — point any OpenAI SDK or tool at that base URL with your RouterPlex key and set model to "qwen3.8-max".
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