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Qwen3 8B API Pricing

Retired October 10, 2026: Alibaba took qwen3-8b offline on that date, and calls to it now fail; the model is gone from Alibaba's pricing page. Alibaba recommends Qwen3.6 Flash instead. Qwen3 8B is an Alibaba Qwen3 text model priced from the Singapore/International row of Model Studio. The verified rate is $0.18/M input and $0.7/M output. The Qwen3 launch blog lists Qwen3 8B as an Apache 2.0 dense model with 128K context.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.18/M
Source Alibaba Model Studio flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$0.70/M
Mode non-thinking baseline flat
Thinking output $2.1/M
$2.10/M
Thinking chain + answer reasoning
Effective - agentic blend
$0.222/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Qwen3 8B API cost calculator.

Live calculator pre-loaded with the verified International Qwen3 8B rates. Use it for invoice checks, agent traces, and scenario planning before large Model Studio runs.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Qwen3 8B cost on real workloads.

CHATBOT

Support answer

$0.00135/turn
4,000 in - 900 out~74,074 units/$100
RAG

Policy analysis

$0.013/query
65,000 in - 2,200 out~7,552 units/$100
CODING

Function rewrite

$0.00569/task
18,000 in - 3,500 out~17,574 units/$100
BATCH

Document summary

$0.00516/doc
24,000 in - 1,200 out~19,379 units/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

Qwen3 8B token counter and cost.

What's a token →
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type

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.

Characters 392
Words 58
Tokens (estimated) 75 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00001 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00005 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Qwen3 8B vs similar models.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Qwen3 8B Current $0.18 $0.70 $0.222 agentic 92/8 128K Small open Qwen3 deployment
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking $0.15 $1.20 $0.234 retired 262K Qwen3 sibling
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct $0.15 $1.20 $0.234 retired 262K Qwen3 sibling
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $0.23 $2.30 $0.396 retired 262K Qwen3 sibling
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 $0.23 $0.92 $0.285 retired 262K Qwen3 sibling
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 $0.20 $2.40 $0.376 retired 262K Qwen3 sibling
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 $0.20 $0.80 $0.248 retired 262K Qwen3 sibling
Qwen3 30B A3B $0.20 $0.80 $0.248 retired 128K Qwen3 sibling
Qwen3.7 Plus $0.40 $1.60 $0.496 +2.2× · promo 1M Current Plus tier
Qwen3.7 Max $2.50 $7.50 $2.90 +13× 1M Current Max flagship
§ 05 / DEEP LINKS

Qwen3 8B cost by scenario.

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Qwen3 8B API pricing FAQ.

Short answers for teams comparing Qwen3 8B against other current Qwen3 text models.

Q · 01 When did Qwen3 8B stop working? +
Alibaba announced on June 8, 2026 that qwen3-8b would go offline on October 10, 2026 (00:00, UTC+8) in the Beijing and Singapore regions, and it has: on October 21, 2026 the model is no longer on Alibaba's pricing page, and calls to it fail. Its notice recommends Qwen3.6 Flash. The rates on this page are the last Alibaba published.
Q · 02 What is the Qwen3 8B input price? +
Alibaba's Singapore/International pricing row lists $0.18/M for input tokens. Alibaba publishes that row in US dollars, so no currency conversion is involved.
Q · 03 What is the Qwen3 8B output price? +
Qwen3 8B is shown at $0.7/M output on this page. Alibaba's International row prices non-thinking output at that rate and thinking output at $2.1/M.
Q · 04 Does Alibaba list prompt-cache pricing for this row? +
No exact cache-read token price is listed in the verified row, so the calculator keeps cache disabled instead of inventing a discount.
Q · 05 Why does this page use International pricing? +
AI//COST uses the Singapore/International row for Alibaba pages because it is the relevant baseline for non-mainland deployment and differs from some US/EU global rows.
Q · 06 Is this a text LLM page only? +
Yes. This page covers the text/code API model. Audio, image, and video models are intentionally handled separately.
Q · 07 Where did the context window come from? +
Context comes from Qwen's official model/blog documentation: Qwen3 launch blog lists Qwen3-8B with 128K context. Pricing comes separately from Alibaba Model Studio.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder · AI//COST · Prices checked by hand against alibabacloud.com · Last verified Oct 21, 2026
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