Qwen3.8 Max

Name: Qwen3.8 Max
Author: Qwen

Reviewed 2026-08-04

Qwenqwen/qwen3.8-max

Context: 1M
Price: $2/$6
Tooling: 4/5
Deploy: Cloud API

Best for

Agentic workflows and tool calling
Writing and editing code
Complex reasoning and analysis
Long documents (~1M context)

Skip if

You need a specialized, domain-tuned model

Capability scores

Tool calling4/5

Multi-step reasoning5/5

Specifications

Context window: 1M tokens
VRAM: N/A (cloud-hosted)
License: apache-2.0
Pricing: $2/M input · $6/M output
Deployment: Cloud API
Docs: Model docs ↗

Our take

Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen offers a 1M-token context window and is well-suited to strong tool calling, multi-step reasoning, coding, long-context work. Pricing is $2/M input · $6/M output, billed per token through the provider API.

It is a balanced pick with no major caveats for most use cases. License: apache-2.0.

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