Alibaba Announced Aug 26, 2026

Qwen3.8-Flash

Alibaba's hosted production version of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, adding a 1M-token default context and built-in tools on top of the open-weight base for coding, agent, and visual work.

Base model
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Alibaba calls Flash the official version with more production features
Context
1M by default
Flash-Next ships 262K native, extended to 1M
Modalities
Text, image, video in
Text output only
Weights
Hosted only
The open checkpoint is published as Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Publisher pricing

Pricing below comes from the release announcement and does not represent a MiniRouter route or price.

Publisher-listed API price phases in US dollars per million tokens.
PhaseInput / 1MOutput / 1MBlended / 1MEffectiveSource
Model Studio API · Singapore$0.15$0.47$0.23Aug 26, 2026open-endedAlibaba Cloud

Publisher-reported benchmarks

Results are grouped by unit. Percentage, Elo, and task-count results never share a scale.

  • Alibaba publishes its benchmark table for the open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, and Artificial Analysis evaluates that checkpoint rather than the hosted model; see that dossier for both.
  • Other Model Studio regions bill $0.113 / $0.382 per 1M tokens; the listed phase is the Singapore rate.

Independent measurements

Artificial Analysis runs its own evaluations and timing against each model's first-party API. These are the only numbers on this page not reported by the publisher.

Not yet evaluated

Artificial Analysis has not published measurements for Qwen3.8-Flash as of Sep 2, 2026. Publisher claims above stand alone until they do.

Source: Artificial Analysis, read Sep 2, 2026. Measured on the model's first-party API, not a MiniRouter route.

What is not independently confirmed

  • Every figure on this page is self-reported by the cited publisher. MiniRouter did not run these benchmarks.
  • Benchmark harnesses are not standardised. Results sharing a name across vendors have not been confirmed to use identical runs.
  • Publisher pricing can change, and introductory phases have stated end dates.
  • Qwen3.8-Flash is routable through MiniRouter today; live pricing on its model page is authoritative over the publisher figures here.

Related coverage

Other release dossiers and the current MiniRouter catalog.

Sources

  1. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next release notes

    Published Aug 26, 2026

    Read at Alibaba

Editorial reference revised 2026-09-02. Catalog status comes from the generated routing snapshot.