alibaba
Qwen 3.8 Flash
Qwen3.8-Flash is Qwen’s fast, cost-efficient multimodal model, combining advanced reasoning and generation with a native 1M-token context window. Built for coding, agentic workflows, and visual understanding, it handles large codebases, long documents, charts, videos, and desktop applications.
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Overview
- Type
- language
- Context
- 991K
- Max output
- 128K
- Input / output
- text, image, pdf / text
API
Model identifier
alibaba/qwen3.8-flashProviders and live performance
Rolling Gateway metrics. Latency is time to first token; throughput is output tokens per second.
| Provider | Status | Latency | Throughput | Uptime 15m / 1h / 1d | Input | Output | Cache read / write | Discount | Regions | ZDR | No training |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| alibaba | Operational | 2.27s / 7.01s | 56.0 / 77.4 tok/s | 99.97% / 99.99% / 100.00% | $0.15/M | $0.47/M | $0.02/M / $0.20/M | — | — | Yes | Yes |
Pricing
input
0.00000015
output
0.00000047
input cache read
0.000000016
input cache write
0.0000002
Capabilities
reasoningtool useimplicit cachingfile inputvisionexplicit cachingstructured outputtextimagepdf
Supported parameters
max tokens
Yes
temperature
Yes
stop
Yes
tools
Yes
tool choice
Yes
reasoning
Yes
include reasoning
Yes
response format
Yes
structured outputs
Yes
Reasoning options
options
{
"type": "toggle"
}, {
"type": "effort",
"values": [
"low",
"medium",
"xhigh"
]
}, {
"type": "budget_tokens"
}
Metadata
type
language
context window
991K
max output
128K
released
Aug 26, 2026
temperature control
Yes
zero data retention
all
no training
all
api specifications
v2, v3, v4