Today's price · per 1M tokens
Input
$0.500
per 1M tokens
Output
$3.00
per 1M tokens
Blended
$1.13
blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output
How this price is scoped: Alibaba Model Studio International list price, single 0<Token≤1M tier, read off the vendor's open-source Qwen3.8 table directly beneath the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B row. Alibaba marks the SKU as eligible for the context-caching discount but prints no cache rate in that table, so cached input is left unset rather than inferred — the same treatment as its Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B sibling. Alibaba's own endpoint on OpenRouter quotes $0.425/$2.55; the number here is the maker's published rate card, not the gateway's.
Price receipt
We read Alibaba's own pricing page on and found qwen3.8-27b listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 5851e18998.
Overview
The 27B dense open-weights model in Alibaba's Qwen3.8 family, served by Alibaba itself on Model Studio at $0.50/$3.00 per 1M tokens — a single flat tier across the whole 1M-token context, with thinking and non-thinking modes billed alike. It undercuts the Qwen3.6-27B row on the same rate card ($0.60/$3.60) and carries roughly four times its context. Text in, text out.
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Capabilities
struck through = not supportedBenchmark performance
accuracy % · higher is better- AA Intelligence Index: 33.7 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
- AA-Omniscience Index: -10 (−100–100)
- GDPval-AA v2: 1463.2 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
- LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1437.1 ELO (Human preference)
- Ranks #99 of 100 benchmarked models by average score
- Ranks #92 of 195 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 5 independent measurements
- Ranks #73 of 195 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
- Strongest at Humanity's Last Exam — 34%, #50 of 81
44.3 tokens/sec output
Source: Artificial Analysis, Artificial Analysis (text-only, no tools, xhigh), LMSYS Chatbot Arena (UC Berkeley) · updated · See full rankings →
Specifications
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Modality
- text
- Parameters
- 27B
- Open source
- Yes — open weights available
- Released
- Status
- Current
- Last updated
- Tags
Availability verified: — listed on Alibaba's own page