Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash✓ Catalog verified
Qwen3.8 Flash is a multimodal reasoning model from Alibaba. It is suited for coding assistance, agentic workflows, visual understanding, document and codebase analysis, desktop interaction, chart analysis, and long-video analysis.
Overview
Qwen3.8 Flash is a multimodal reasoning model from Alibaba. It is suited for coding assistance, agentic workflows, visual understanding, document and codebase analysis, desktop interaction, chart analysis, and long-video analysis.
Access: available through the official Qwen API. Context window: 1M.
Specifications
| API identifier | qwen/qwen3.8-flash |
| Provider | Qwen |
| Model type | Multimodal LLM |
| Context window | 1M catalog |
| Input modalities | text · image · video |
| Output modalities | text |
| Released | Aug 26, 2026 |
| Tokenizer | Qwen |
| Moderated | No |
| Architecture modality | text+image+video->text |
Pricing
Live pricing components for qwen/qwen3.8-flash as published in the catalog.
| Pricing component | Raw unit price | Normalized | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tokens | $1.6e-7 | $0.16 / 1M | Per input token |
| Completion tokens | $4.7e-7 | $0.47 / 1M | Per output token |
| Request fee | N/A | N/A | Per request |
| Image fee | N/A | N/A | Per image unit |
| Web search fee | N/A | N/A | Per search request |
Cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend from your own token volumes.
Estimated Total Cost
$0.17Calculated from current list pricing in the ModelsAtlas catalog.Capabilities
| Capability | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Understanding | ✓ Supported | Image and document analysis support |
| Audio Processing | Not advertised | Speech and voice aligned flows |
| Tool Calling | ✓ Supported | Supports tools / function calling |
| Self-Hosting | ✓ Supported | Deploy outside managed APIs |
Capability signals
Directional signals derived from model metadata and capability tags — not official benchmark submissions.
Quick start
Call Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash through an OpenAI-compatible client.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3.8-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
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Sources & attribution
Pricing and metadata are maintained in the ModelsAtlas catalog.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash cost?
$0.16 per 1M input tokens and $0.47 per 1M output tokens on the official Qwen API.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash?
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash supports up to 1M tokens of context.
Does Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash support tool / function calling?
Yes, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash?
Use the official Qwen API with the model id `qwen/qwen3.8-flash`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.