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Alibaba ·Open weights (unrestricted) ·Released August 2026·Tracked since 15 Aug 2026

Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
unranked
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Speed
#174 of 339
47.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#227 of 439
$0.96
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.42 · Out $2.55
Cache hit price
#150 of 322
$0.085
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#134 of 473
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B does not yet carry a Known Good Index score — the index needs at least one science, one mathematics and one coding result. It accepts text, image, video input, outputs text, and supports a 1.00M-token context window.

Pricing is $0.42 per 1M input tokens (below the $2.08 average) and $2.55 per 1M output (below the $9.56 average). Cached input reads at $0.085 per 1M, a 80% discount on its input price. At 47 tokens per second it sits in the lower middle of the tracked range.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

Technical specifications
ReasoningYes
Input modalitytext, image, video
Output modalitytext
Context window1,000,000 tokens
Max output131,072 tokens
WeightsOpen weights · Open weights (unrestricted)
Knowledge cutoff
Tool callingYes
Providers13 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B sits
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Quality

How Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCodingMathematicsReasoning
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, Mock AIME 2024–25, MATH Level 5, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from their publishers; we do not run these evaluations. This model is not in this ranking: it holds no Known Good Index score.

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Quality Breakdown

Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B · grey marker = average across tracked models

None of the seven index evaluations have published a score for this model yet.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Text Arena

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

1437
Elo · 95% CI ±8
#69
of 406 ranked models
7k
votes counted
1435
style-controlled (#89)

Ingested 2 Sep 2026.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better. Ranked against the 439 models priced above zero, which is the population the chart draws; excludes 29 published at no cost (free and promotional tiers).

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Mean output throughput across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Mean output tokens per second across all tracked providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, mean across providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, mean across tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B, with their own price and speed

13 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Venice $0.45 $3.20 $1.14 83 0.8s 262k
Phala $0.40 $3.00 $1.05 78 0.6s 262k
Io Net $0.43 $3.06 $1.09 70 0.8s 66k
Parasail $0.25 $2.20 $0.74 66 0.7s 262k
AkashML $0.32 $2.50 $0.86 64 0.7s 262k
Ionstream $0.35 $2.55 $0.90 64 0.7s 262k
Reka · first party $0.35 $2.55 $0.90 61 0.5s 262k
CoreWeave $0.40 $3.00 $1.05 59 0.6s 262k
Morph $0.29 $2.40 $0.82 53 1.2s 131k
Alibaba · first party $0.42 $2.55 $0.96 38 1.1s 1.00M
Novita $0.42 $3.00 $1.06 35 2.7s 1.00M
Chutes $0.32 $2.50 $0.86 28 2.0s 262k
Cloudflare $0.45 $3.20 $1.14 24 1.0s 262k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 15 Aug 2026

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Blended price $0.96 per 1M · observed 3 Sep 2026
Output speed 47 tok/s · observed 3 Sep 2026
Time to first token 1.8s
25 Aug 2026 · price change
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B price down 9%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $1.05 to $0.96 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
22 Aug 2026 · price change
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B price down 8%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $1.14 to $1.05 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Elo — Arena Full attribution →