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Qwen3.8 Max Prime Pricing

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Qwen3.8 Max Prime from Qwen costs $4.00 per 1 million input tokens and $12.00 per 1 million output tokens as of September 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 1,000,000-token context window (approximately 750,000 words) with a 131K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0040 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0400.

Qwen3.8 Max Prime pricing and capability summary
Input price$4.00 / 1M tokens
Output price$12.00 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio3.0×
Context window1,000,000 tokens (~750,000 words)
Maximum output131,072 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0040
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Qwen3.8 Max Prime is a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, served as a separate SKU at a higher price point.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$4.00

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$12.00

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

1M tokens

max 131K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.00533$0.0048
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.0133$0.012
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.02$0.018
100K token document100,000$0.40$0.36

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Massive 1M-token context window
  • Frontier-class quality on complex tasks
  • Multimodal: understands images as well as text

Limitations

  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider
  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

Complex research and analysis
Advanced coding and architecture
Multimodal document understanding
High-stakes production workloads

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