Alibaba switches on Qwen3.8-Flash API at $0.16 per million input tokens
The same-day follow-up puts Qwen's new model on QwenCloud with a default 1-million-token context and OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Qwen / Alibaba
Why it matters
The live API turns the same-day Flash-Next model release into a product developers can price and integrate. DeepSeek already offers comparable context length and API compatibility, leaving QwenCloud to compete on inference cost, managed tools and production performance.
QwenCloud now serves Qwen3.8-Flash at $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, with a default 1-million-token context and compatibility with OpenAI and Anthropic API formats. QwenCloud's pricing documentation lists the published token rates.…