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Qwen3.8-27B

by Alibaba · 27B parameters

Current new · 17d mid tier open weights mid tier

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.

Source: official Alibaba pricing · read Aug 28, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-31

Price receipt

We read Alibaba's own pricing page on Aug 31, 2026 and found qwen3.8-27b listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 61a3d7dd95.

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 supported
Input 1/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 2/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 66.6th4 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 59.5

We hold no per-benchmark accuracy scores for this model yet, so it has no accuracy average. That is a gap in our coverage, not a sign the model is untested — independent evaluators often publish a composite index for a new model long before releasing its per-benchmark numbers. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 52 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 50.9 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -10 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1543 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #34 of 172 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 4 independent measurements
  • Ranks #42 of 172 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

Source: Artificial Analysis · updated Aug 31, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Alibaba
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
27B
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Aug 14, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Aug 28, 2026
Tags
mid-tieropen-weights

Availability verified: Aug 28, 2026 — listed on Alibaba's own page