How much does Qwen3 8B cost per million tokens?

Qwen3 8B costs $0.117 per million input tokens and $0.455 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B accepts up to 131,072 tokens of context and returns up to 8,192 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Qwen3 8B?

About $0.34, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen3 8B?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.03 / $0.5) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Qwen API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Qwen sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Qwen · live price

Qwen3 8B API pricing

Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between "thinking" mode for math,...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)Tool callingReasoningRetiring 2026-10-09

Input: $0.117; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.455; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 131K; 8K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Qwen's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released April 28, 2025. Model id qwen/qwen3-8b.

What Qwen3 8B costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.34

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$1.16

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.44

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Qwen3 8B price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Qwen3 8B price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

Alibaba$0.117 in · $0.455 out · 131K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h

Where to buy Qwen credits for less

Qwen3 8B costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Qwen3 8B cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.117 in / $0.455 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$10.40/ month(quotes below are for $10.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Qwen3 8B

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	$0.042	$0.084	$0.052	1.0M
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B	$0.09	$0.3	$0.143	262K
Google: Gemma 4 31B	$0.09	$0.34	$0.152	262K

Other Qwen models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen3 14B	$0.12	$0.24	$0.15	131K
Qwen3 32B	$0.08	$0.28	$0.13	131K
Qwen3 30B A3B	$0.12	$0.5	$0.215	131K
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	$0.087	$0.35	$0.153	262K
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B	$0.3	$1	$0.475	262K
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct	$0.8	$1	$0.85	128K

All Qwen API prices