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Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: pricing, context and benchmarks
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is Alibaba (Qwen)'s model released on August 12, 2026. It costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
| Price | 7/30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Context | 14/15 | |
| Features | 15/15 |
What you need to know about Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Alibaba (Qwen), based in China, put Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B online on August 12, 2026. It accepts text as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 1,048,576 tokens, larger than 93 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 909,000 tokens in one go.
It is a recent model: real-world feedback and independent scores are still scarce.
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B pricing
On OpenRouter, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $3 per million, more expensive than 77 % of paid models (3.9 times the median of $0.76).
A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.007. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $210 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.
Tokens already sent and cached are billed at $0.25 per million.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It supports tool calling, so it can drive an AI agent, call APIs or MCP servers.
- It can answer in an enforced JSON format (structured outputs).
- It is a reasoning model: it "thinks" before answering, which helps on hard tasks but uses more output tokens.
Its weights are open and downloadable from Hugging Face (other licence): you can run it on your own machines without sending your data to a third party. With 2,446,182,725,504 billion parameters, it needs about 1,366,911,116,338 GB of memory at 4-bit quantisation. Check with the VRAM calculator. It was downloaded 25,371 times on Hugging Face last month.
Other Alibaba (Qwen) models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | Sep 23, 2026 | $6 | — |
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | Sep 21, 2026 | $0.23 | — |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | Sep 3, 2026 | $3 | 155.1 |
| Qwen3.8 Flash | Aug 26, 2026 | $0.23 | — |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Aug 14, 2026 | $0.78 | 151.7 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.06 | 144.1 |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.56 | 147 |
| Qwen3.7 Max | May 21, 2026 | $2.21 | 154 |
Verdict
Computed score: 60/100, from public data (performance, price, context, features).
Strengths
- Very large context (1M tokens): long documents or a whole codebase fit in one request.
- Open weights: self-hostable, your data stays with you.
- Agent-ready: tool calling and structured JSON output.
Limitations
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Text only: reads neither images nor files.
Avoid if…
- you process large volumes on a tight budget;
- your tasks are mostly simple: a non-reasoning model will cost less;
- you want to host it on a single consumer computer (≈ 1,366,911,116,338 GB needed at 4-bit).
Alternatives
- Gemini 3.5 Flash$3.38
- Kimi K3$2.88
- Gemini 2.5 Pro$3.44
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05$3.44
- Mistral Large 4$2.07
- Muse Spark 1.3$2
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B cost?
$2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens on OpenRouter (checked October 25, 2026). A task with 2,000 tokens read and 500 written costs $0.007.
How big is Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B's context window?
1,048,576 tokens, roughly 786,000 words, with a maximum of 909,000 output tokens.
Can Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B run locally?
Yes, its weights are published under the other licence. Expect about 1,366,911,116,338 GB of memory at 4-bit.
Is Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B suitable for an AI agent?
Technically yes: it supports tool calling and structured outputs. Then check its cost for your volume.
What are the alternatives to Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?
The closest models on price and performance are Gemini 3.5 Flash, Kimi K3, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
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