How much does Qwen3.8 27B cost per million tokens?

Qwen3.8 27B costs $0.42 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.085 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen3.8 27B?

Qwen3.8 27B accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and returns up to 131,072 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Qwen3.8 27B?

About $1.92, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen3.8 27B?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Z.ai GLM 5.3 FlashX ($0.37 / $1.25) 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

Qwen3.8 27B API pricing

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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Input: $0.42; per 1M tokens
Output: $3; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.085; per 1M tokens
Context: 1M; 131K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Qwen's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released August 14, 2026. Model id qwen/qwen3.8-27b.

What Qwen3.8 27B costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$1.92

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$4.86

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$1.86

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

Qwen3.8 27B price history

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

Qwen3.8 27B price by host

AkashML serves it below list price right now. Route to it to pay less on every token.

AkashML$0.202 in · $1.78 out · 262K ctx · 99.8% uptime 24h
Phala$0.15 in · $1.88 out · 1M ctx · 98.7% uptime 24h
DeepInfra$0.15 in · $1.88 out · 262K ctx · 99.3% uptime 24h
Darkbloom$0.05 in · $2.20 out · 262K ctx · 97.7% uptime 24h
Parasail$0.24 in · $2.20 out · 262K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
Chutes$0.24 in · $2.20 out · 262K ctx · 99.4% uptime 24h
Ionstream$0.089 in · $2.55 out · 262K ctx · 98.4% uptime 24h
Mancer 2$0.2 in · $2.50 out · 262K ctx · 99.4% uptime 24h
Alibaba$0.425 in · $2.55 out · 1M ctx · 97.0% uptime 24h
DekaLLM$0.049 in · $3 out · 262K ctx · 99.8% uptime 24h
CoreWeave$0.4 in · $3 out · 262K ctx · 99.5% uptime 24h
Novita$0.42 in · $3 out · 1M ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
Cloudflare$0.45 in · $3.20 out · 262K ctx · 95.0% uptime 24h
Venice$0.45 in · $3.20 out · 262K ctx · 99.8% uptime 24h
Wafer$0.025 in · $4.35 out · 262K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
Reka$0.025 in · $4.35 out · 262K ctx · 99.5% uptime 24h

Where to buy Qwen credits for less

Qwen3.8 27B 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

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

Qwen3.8 27B cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.42 in / $3.00 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$51.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Qwen3.8 27B

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
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash	$0.15	$0.5	$0.237	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	$0.216	$0.647	$0.323	1.0M

Other Qwen models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B	$2	$6	$3	1.0M
Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Qwen3.7 Flash	$0.03	$0.13	$0.055	1M
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	$2	$6	$3	1M
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Qwen3.8 Max Prime	$4	$12	$6	1M

All Qwen API prices