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Qwen3.8 Max Prime

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Qwen3.8 Max Prime is a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, served as a separate SKU at a higher price point. It accepts text, image, and video...

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Qwen3.8 Max Prime

Added 24 Sept 2026

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Overview

Qwen3.8 Max Prime is a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, served as a separate SKU at a higher price point. It accepts text, image, and video...

Best for

Best for
Higher-throughput Qwen variant

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime`.

  • openrouter · qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime Docs

OpenRouter id: qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime

Notes

Qwen3.8 Max Prime is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

Pros

  • Testing a separate serving SKU against ordinary Qwen Max
  • text, image, video input; text output on the listed OpenRouter route

Cons

  • Treating Prime as a new model training generation
  • Paying for throughput without a measured concurrency need
  • Base text-token rates exclude other modalities, tools, caching, retries and any hosting-specific charges. Check actual usage before comparing cost per successful task.
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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Qwen3.8 Max Prime is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
25B ▼20%
Requests, last 7 days
409K
Tool calls, last 7 days
149K
Price per million tokens
$4 in · $12 out
05B10B23 Sept: 349M tokens, 10.9K requests24 Sept: 2B tokens, 59.1K requests25 Sept: 2.2B tokens, 27.8K requests26 Sept: 4.4B tokens, 29.9K requests27 Sept: 2.9B tokens, 29.7K requests28 Sept: 3.8B tokens, 35.5K requests29 Sept: 4.2B tokens, 46K requests30 Sept: 5.2B tokens, 41.1K requests1 Oct: 3.1B tokens, 48.1K requests2 Oct: 3.3B tokens, 39.8K requests3 Oct: 1.3B tokens, 23.6K requests4 Oct: 1.2B tokens, 25.2K requests5 Oct: 2.9B tokens, 49.3K requests6 Oct: 3.1B tokens, 58.5K requests7 Oct: 6.2B tokens, 67.8K requests8 Oct: 5.1B tokens, 91.1K requests9 Oct: 5.1B tokens, 73.9K requests10 Oct: 5B tokens, 69.9K requests11 Oct: 3.8B tokens, 48.5K requests12 Oct: 6.6B tokens, 68K requests13 Oct: 3.7B tokens, 40.8K requests14 Oct: 3.1B tokens, 43.9K requests15 Oct: 5.1B tokens, 160K requests16 Oct: 2.8B tokens, 37.3K requests17 Oct: 2.4B tokens, 24.8K requests18 Oct: 1.2B tokens, 34.7K requests23 Sept7 Oct18 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

MODEL FIELD GUIDE / SOURCE EVIDENCE

What you can do with Qwen3.8 Max Prime.

Specifications reviewed; no EDNA task evaluation has been run. Sources checked 2026-10-20. Hosting routes and app features can differ.

DeveloperAlibaba Qwen
Exact model identifierqwen/qwen3.8-max-prime
Inputtext, image, video
Outputtext
Tool calling
Listed support
Structured output
Listed support
Reasoning controls
Listed support
Availability
available
Price basis
token
Licence verification
Check the developer licence; the model name is insufficient

Base text-token rates exclude other modalities, tools, caching, retries and any hosting-specific charges. Check actual usage before comparing cost per successful task.

Consider it for

  • Testing a separate serving SKU against ordinary Qwen Max
  • Analysing video or images with text instructions

Watch for

  • Treating Prime as a new model training generation
  • Paying for throughput without a measured concurrency need

PRACTICAL EXERCISE / NOT RUN BY ENTERPRISE DNA

Try the model on a small, checkable task.

A service processes 30 jobs per worker per minute. Compare two versus four workers for 300 queued jobs with no new arrivals. State where real serving overhead would change the estimate.

Check the result: Ideal times are 5 and 2.5 minutes; the calculation is explicitly a queue exercise, not a measured model speed claim.

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Checked 2026-10-20
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Price date: 2026-10-20. Prices are USD API token rates. Your app subscription, uploads, browsing and tools are separate.

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