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Qwen3.8 Flash

Qwen · Model Studio (Intl)Direct API

Fresh input / cached input / output cost breakdown, active and scheduled rates, provenance, same-model deployment markup, and cost-comparable alternatives for this purchasable lane.

Start with a pattern

Illustrative workloads

Pick a useful starting shape, then fine-tune every input below.

Fine-tune

Workload and pricing scenario

Adjust the token shape, cache behavior, time window, and service tier. Every number below updates immediately.

Interactive

Workload cost calculator

60M
210K
90%

Share of input tokens served from cache. Applied only to models with a cache meter.

Time

Rows with a rate that changes by time of day, promo window or service tier are priced for this scenario instead of their flat listed rate; a brand-colored label under the model name names which one applies. Context size for band-priced rows uses the input-token count below.

Picking a specific hour also previews time-of-day rates that are scheduled but have not started billing yet; those rows are labelled · preview with their start instant. Now only ever shows rates that are billable at this moment.

Rate state

What this lane charges right now

Priced under the workload and scenario above. The full published schedule below always shows every variant regardless of which scenario is selected.

Input / 1M
$0.15
CHF 0.121
Cached input / 1M
$0.016
CHF 0.013
Output / 1M
$0.47
CHF 0.378
Cost anatomy

Where this workload's cost goes

60M input tokens (90% cache hit) and 210K output tokens, at the resolved rate above.

$0.90
Fresh input · CHF 0.724
$0.864
Cached input · CHF 0.696
$0.099
Output · CHF 0.079
$1.86
Workload total · CHF 1.50

$0.90 + $0.864 + $0.099 = $1.86

Provenance

How much to trust these numbers

InputofficialCached inputofficialOutputofficial

New hybrid-thinking multimodal model with image, video and text input, a 1M-token context window and 131K max output. The International rate has no promotional label; its implicit-cache and explicit-cache-read rates are both $0.016/M.

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing page, Singapore/International endpoint, captured 2026-08-28 via direct DOM inspection: qwen3.8-flash is listed at $0.15/M input and $0.47/M output for the single 0<Token≤1M band and is marked as supporting context caching. QwenCloud's first-party model page (using the same DashScope International endpoint) publishes $0.016/M implicit cached input, $0.20/M explicit cache creation and $0.016/M explicit cache read. Alibaba's context-cache documentation explicitly lists qwen3.8-flash as a Qwen3.8 exception to the generic 10% cache-read rule, so the cached figure is not derived. A full Azure Retail Prices API sweep on 2026-08-28 found no Foundry meter for Qwen3.8-Flash, so this direct-API row is the only lane.

Direct vs Foundry

Same-model deployment markup

How much more Microsoft Foundry charges for this exact model, over this Direct rate.

Not available — no Microsoft Foundry listing exists for this exact model in the catalog.

Cost-comparable

Other lanes within ±25% of this workload's cost

Same provider first, then ranked by cost proximity, for 60M in / 210K out. This is a cost ranking only — never a quality recommendation.

  • DeepSeek-V4 Flash
    DeepSeek · DeepSeek direct API
    Direct API
    $1.84
    CHF 1.48
    -$0.026 (-1%) vs this lane