Qwen3.8 27B
Alibaba · Multimodal · Released Aug 2026
Qwen3.8 27B is Alibaba's lightweight language model from the Qwen3.8 generation with a 1 million token context window.
- Strengths
- It trades capability for speed and lower resource consumption compared to the flagship Qwen3.8 Max, making it suitable for applications where throughput matters.
- Best for
- Latency-sensitive tasks, batch processing, and applications that need fast inference without requiring the full reasoning capability of larger models in the Qwen3.8 lineup.
- Limitations
- As a smaller tier model, it has less reasoning capacity and language understanding than Qwen3.8 Max and the multimodal variants like Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B, making it unsuitable for complex reasoning or multimodal input tasks.
Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$1.88
Cached input / 1M
$0.0375
Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in increased 275.0% out decreased 18.5%
- 90d
- in decreased 66.7% out decreased 41.4%
- 1y
- in decreased 66.7% out decreased 41.4%
- Since launch
- in decreased 66.7% out decreased 41.4%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Nov 2026 | $0.15 | $1.88 | $0.0375 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 31 Oct 2026 | $0.04 | $2.30 | $0.02 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 30 Oct 2026 | $0.15 | $1.88 | $0.0375 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Oct 2026 | $0.039 | $1.25 | $0.0039 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 27 Oct 2026 | $0.2 | $2.50 | $0.09 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Oct 2026 | $0.2 | $2.50 | $0.09 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 20 Oct 2026 | $0.04 | $1.35 | $0.018 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Oct 2026 | $0.24 | $2.20 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Oct 2026 | $0.04 | $2.30 | $0.0198 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 4 Oct 2026 | $0.425 | $2.55 | $0.085 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 1 Oct 2026 | $0.42 | $3.00 | $0.085 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 30 Sep 2026 | $0.0249 | $4.35 | $0.0199 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 29 Sep 2026 | $0.0249 | $4.40 | $0.0199 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 21 Sep 2026 | $0.42 | $3.00 | $0.085 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 20 Sep 2026 | $0.2 | $2.55 | $0.085 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 12 Sep 2026 | $0.214 | $2.55 | $0.15 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 3 Sep 2026 | $0.42 | $3.00 | $0.085 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Aug 2026 | $0.425 | $2.55 | $0.085 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 25 Aug 2026 | $0.425 | $2.55 | $0.085 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Aug 2026 | $0.4 | $3.00 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 16 Aug 2026 | $0.45 | $3.20 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Aug 2026 | $0.45 | $3.20 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |