Qwen3.8 27B pricing

Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen. It is suited for coding, professional workflows, research, multimodal interaction, and long-running agent tasks, with flexible thinking that can… Qwen3.8 27B from Alibaba (Qwen) costs $0.450 per 1M input tokens and $3.20 per 1M output tokens. Context window 262,144 tokens.

API id qwen3.8-27b · Alibaba (Qwen) · source · updated 2026-08-15

$0.450
Input / 1M tokens
$3.20
Output / 1M tokens
—
Cached input / 1M
262K
Context window

What Qwen3.8 27B costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500$0.0021
Document summary50,0002,000$0.03
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000$1.09

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does Qwen3.8 27B cost per 1M tokens?
Qwen3.8 27B costs $0.450 per 1M input tokens and $3.20 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
What is Qwen3.8 27B's context window?
Qwen3.8 27B accepts up to 262,144 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 131,072 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper Qwen model than Qwen3.8 27B?
Yes. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $0.360 per 1M input tokens versus $0.450 for Qwen3.8 27B, with a 32,768 token context window.
Where does this Qwen3.8 27B price come from?
From the OpenRouter catalogue, because Alibaba (Qwen) does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from Alibaba (Qwen)'s own — verify before committing spend.

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