Qwen3.8 Max Preview

AlibabaMCP Tool CallReasoning
alibaba/qwen3.8-max-previewClosed API

Preview Qwen flagship for million-token multimodal reasoning and long-horizon agentic workflows

Benchmark Pricing$2.00 / 1M in$6.00 / 1M out$0.25 cache read
Context: 1,000,000 tokens•Max Output: 131,072 tokens•Released: 2026-07-19

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window1,000,0001M tokens
Max Output131,072131.1K tokens
LicenseProprietaryCloud API only
Input Modalities
TextVisionVideo
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Qwen3.8 Max Preview natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 1,000,000 tokens, this model can handle extremely large MCP resource manifests, complete database schemas, and multiple active server tool definitions simultaneously without degradation.

STANDARDIZED BENCHMARKS & EVALS

Terminal-Benchaccuracy
86.6
SWE-Bench Proresolve rate
67.7
DeepSWEresolve rate
56.6
NL2Reporesolve rate
55.9
FrontierSWEdominance score
73.5
MLS-Bench-Litescore
41
AutomationBenchpass@1
27.3
Toolathlon Verifiedpass@1
72.5
WideSearchF1
81.9
Humanity's Last Examaccuracy
56.2
GPQA Diamondaccuracy
92.6
Humanity's Last Examaccuracy
43.6
IFBenchscore
82.8
OSWorld-Verifiedsuccess rate
86.1
MMMU Proaccuracy
82.3

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Qwen3.8 Max Preview via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.ALIBABA_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "alibaba/qwen3.8-max-preview",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

PRICING BY PROVIDER

6 providers
Charm Hyperqwen3.8-max
$2.00 / $6.00$0.25 cache
AIHubMixqwen3.8-max-preview
$0.34 / $1.01$0.07 cache
Alibaba Token Plan (China)qwen3.8-max-preview
$0.00 / $0.00$0.00 cache
DevPass (LLM Gateway)qwen3.8-max
$1.54 / $4.63$0.20 cache
Impossiblqwen/qwen3.8-max-preview
$2.50 / $7.50
Alibaba Token Planqwen3.8-max-preview
$0.00 / $0.00$0.00 cache

Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.

Prompt Caching Active

This model supports prompt caching at $0.25 / 1M tokens, saving up to 88% on repetitive MCP tool definitions and system instructions.

MODEL RESOURCES