Qwen3.8-27B API Pricing
Qwen3.8-27B is the small, dense member of the Qwen3.8 family — and the one that reads images. Alibaba's International (Singapore) rate card lists it at $0.5/M input and $3/M output, a quarter of what the family's 2.4T-A95B and Max siblings cost. The size ordering and the capability ordering point opposite ways here: Qwen's own model card calls this one a Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder, while the far larger 2.4T-A95B is text-only.
Run the numbers.
Calculator pre-loaded with the International (Singapore) list rates. Non-Thinking and Thinking modes carry the same rate, so reasoning has no separate price — it only raises the output token count. New accounts get 1 million free tokens, valid 90 days.
Real-world presets.
Repo-wide feature build
Reading 150-page contracts
Support agent ticket triage
Research planning turn
Paste text. See tokens. See cost.
Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-27B Current | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.70 27B dense | 1M | Small Qwen3.8 that reads images |
| Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | $2.00 | $6.00 | $2.32 pricier | 1M | The frontier sibling, text only |
| Qwen3.8 Max | $2.00 | $6.00 | $2.32 pricier | 1M | Max tier with vision and video |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.70 same | 1M | Identical card, previous generation |
| Qwen3-VL Plus | $0.20 | $1.60 | $0.312 cheaper | 256K | Cheaper vision Qwen, shorter context |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 cheaper | 1M | Dearer per token, cheaper with cache |
| Muse Spark 1.2 | $1.25 cache $0.15 | $4.25 | $0.66 cheaper | 1M | 2.5x the list rate, cache closes it |
Frequently asked.
Qwen3.8-27B pricing questions, with the International list kept apart from Alibaba's other rows.
Q · 01 How much does Qwen3.8-27B cost? +
$0.5/M input and $3/M output on Alibaba's International (Singapore) list, in a single billing band for prompts up to 1M tokens. Non-Thinking and Thinking modes are priced identically.Q · 02 Does it accept images? +
Q · 03 Why do other sites quote a lower price? +
$0.424 / $1.696. This catalogue records the International list throughout, so figures stay comparable between Qwen models — mixing the regional cards is the single easiest way to misread Alibaba's page.Q · 04 What is the real context window? +
262,144 tokens natively, extensible to 1,000,000. The 1M shown here is Alibaba's billing band — the rate card prices a single band from 0 to 1M input tokens per request, and the same basis is used for Qwen3.8 Max and 2.4T-A95B so the family stays comparable.Q · 05 Is there a cache discount? +
$0.075/M.