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Qwen3.8 Max Prime
by Qwen
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.
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From the listing
About Qwen3.8 Max Prime
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.
Best for
Higher-throughput Qwen variant
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.
Key facts
What we have checked
- Input price
- $4.00 per million tokens
- Output price
- $12.00 per million tokens
- Price on qwen
- $0.500 per million cached input tokens
- Price on qwen
- $4.00 per million input tokens
- Price on qwen
- $12.00 per million output tokens
- Latest version
- qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime-20260923
- Time to first token (ms) on qwen
- 1,941
- Output speed (tokens a second) on qwen
- 56
- Tokens served on OpenRouter in a day
- 2.9B (for 10 Nov 2026)
- Tool calls on OpenRouter in a day
- 17.2K (for 10 Nov 2026)
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API access
How to call it
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
Price
What Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs, over time
$4.00 to $4.00
$12.00 to $12.00
Prices by host
| Host | Price | Over time | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| qwenCached input | $0.500 per million cached input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | OpenRouter models API |
| qwenInput | $4.00 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | OpenRouter models API |
| qwenOutput | $12.00 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | OpenRouter models API |
Usage
How much Qwen3.8 Max Prime is used
349.4M to 2.9B
Sources
Where this comes from
- OpenRouter models APIRegistry
- OpenRouter models APIThird party
- OpenRouter models APIOfficial
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Changelog
What changed
No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.
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
- 26.3B ▲2.2%
- Requests, last 7 days
- 428K
- Tool calls, last 7 days
- 171K
- Price per million tokens
- $4 in · $12 out
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 2026-11-07. Hosting routes and app features can differ.
qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime- 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
- Context length
- 1M tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not established
- Developer release date
- Not established
- First seen in the catalogue
- 23 Sept 2026
- Listed retirement date
- Not established
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
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Check the result: Ideal times are 5 and 2.5 minutes; the calculation is explicitly a queue exercise, not a measured model speed claim.
Inspect the sources and their scope
qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime: listed route capabilities, availability and prices; provider endpoints can differ.
Checked 2026-11-07Source for reasoning controls, first seen, tool calling, context length, input, output, structured output.
Checked 2026-11-07FROM SPECIFICATIONS TO YOUR WORK
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Working out the cost...
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Check the source
Price date: 10 Nov 2026, from OpenRouter models API. Prices are USD API token rates. Your app subscription, uploads, browsing and tools are separate.
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