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Qwen3.8 Flash

A cheap model that understands pictures and video, and can be downloaded and run yourself.

Last updated October 16, 2026.

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Made by Alibaba (Qwen). Everyday and cheap.

What it costs

1,000-word essay: under 1 cent
100 chat messages: $0.19 (about 19 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: Not rated yet (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

pictures and videolong documents

Watch out for

We don't have a smartness score for it yet.

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Frequently asked

How much does Qwen3.8 Flash 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 Flash best for?
A cheap model that understands pictures and video, and can be downloaded and run yourself.

How much can Qwen3.8 Flash 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 Flash 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	$0.15
Price per 1M output tokens	$0.47
Context size	1M tokens (1,000,000)
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	Not reported (source, via OpenRouter)
Open weights	Yes (Hugging Face: Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next)
Speed	Not measured yet
Listed	2026-08-26

Maker's description (technical)

Qwen3.8 Flash is a multimodal reasoning model from Alibaba. It is suited for coding assistance, agentic workflows, visual understanding, document and codebase analysis, desktop interaction, chart analysis, and long-video analysis.

View on OpenRouter. Our verdict above is editorial, not benchmarked by us.