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Qwen3.8 27B

A mid-size downloadable model that understands pictures and video, and is realistic to run on your own hardware.

Last updated October 16, 2026.

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Made by Alibaba (Qwen). Free to download.

What it costs

1,000-word essay: under 1 cent
100 chat messages: $0.33 (about 33 cents)
50-page PDF summary: $0.01 (about 1 cent)

Based on list prices and the assumptions on How we work. Your real cost will differ.

At a glance

Smartness: ★★★☆☆ (3 of 5) (our banding of the Artificial Analysis score, where available)
Reads at once: about 1,500 pages (rule of thumb)
Understands: text, pictures, video
Free to download and run yourself: Yes
Free to use: Not free for developers. Free app plans

Best for

running it yourselfpictures and video

Watch out for

Scores below the big models.

Appears in

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Frequently asked

How much does Qwen3.8 27B cost to use?
A 1,000-word essay costs about under 1 cent; summarizing a 50-page PDF about $0.01 (about 1 cent). These are developer (API) prices, not an app subscription.

What is Qwen3.8 27B best for?
A mid-size downloadable model that understands pictures and video, and is realistic to run on your own hardware.

How much can Qwen3.8 27B read at once?
About 1,500 pages (a rule of thumb: 1,000,000 tokens at roughly 500 words a page).

Can I download Qwen3.8 27B for free?
Yes, the model files are published, though running a large one needs powerful hardware.

Under the hood

Maker	Alibaba (Qwen)
Price per 1M input tokens	$0.24
Price per 1M output tokens	$2.20
Context size	1M tokens (1,000,000)
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	33.7 (source, via OpenRouter)
Open weights	Yes (Hugging Face: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B)
Speed	Not measured yet
Listed	2026-08-14

Maker's description (technical)

Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen. It is suited for coding, professional workflows, research, multimodal interaction, and long-running agent tasks, with flexible thinking that can be...

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