Qwen3.8 Flash: API price, context window and how to connect
Qwen3.8 Flash by Qwen (Alibaba): $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.47 per million output tokens, a 1M-token window. What it is good for, what to compare it with and how to connect it in SKILLOK.
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In short#
Alibaba's multimodal reasoning model. Suited to coding help, agentic workflows, analyzing documents, charts and codebases, desktop interaction and long-video analysis.
Specifications#
| Provider | Qwen (Alibaba) |
| Released | 2026-08-26 |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Accepts | text, images, video |
| Answers with | text |
| Reasoning mode | yes |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Open weights | yes |
| Identifier | qwen/qwen3.8-flash |
Price#
| Per 1M tokens | In dollars |
|---|---|
| Input (question, context) | $0.15 |
| Output (answer) | $0.47 |
For reference: a conversation of 20 questions of ~500 tokens and answers of ~800 tokens costs about $0.009. Models in reasoning mode spend more tokens on an answer than the text shows: the reasoning is paid for too.
What it is good for#
- Analyzing documents and charts
- Long video analysis
- A code assistant
Similar models#
Catalog models with the same kind of output, closest in the price of a typical request.
| Model | Input | Output | Window | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | 1M | about the same |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.1 | $0.5 | 1.05M | about the same |
| GPT-6 Luna Pro | $0.1 | $0.5 | 1.05M | about the same |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.1 | $0.5 | 1M | about the same |
| Mistral Small 4 | $0.15 | $0.6 | 262K | 1.2× more expensive |
Other Qwen (Alibaba) models#
How to connect in SKILLOK#
Qwen3.8 Flash works through OpenRouter: add an OpenRouter key in Settings → AI and pick the qwen/qwen3.8-flash model. It then becomes available in Space AI, in tasks and to the repository agent. In detail — Connecting a model in SKILLOK.
Where the data comes from#
Prices, the context window and capabilities come from the public OpenRouter catalog as of 2026-10-19. A provider may change the price — the exact figure is always on the model's OpenRouter page.
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