Qwen3.8 Omni Flash API Pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) · context window 1M · prices updated 2026-09-29
Where Qwen3.8 Omni Flash sits on price
At $0.47 per million output tokens, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is a budget tier model — 4.7× cheaper than the median output price of $2.20, which puts it cheaper than 80% and pricier than 20% of the models we track. It sits 14th cheapest of the 53 Alibaba (Qwen) models we track. Output costs 3.1× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
Cached input is 89% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 28% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.47/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0.0001 | $416 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0001 | $4.36 |
| Long-context analysis — 200 runs/day (250K in / 4K out) Only possible on large-context models; input cost is nearly the whole bill. | $0.0394 | $236 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Qwen3.8 Omni Flash with caching and batch options.
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash price history
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash's price has not moved since we began tracking it on Sep 23, 2026 — 6 days of stability in a market where 88 of the 353 models we track have repriced over the same period, including 16 of Alibaba (Qwen)'s own 53 models.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Sep 23, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Gemma 3 27B
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Gemma 3 27B (Google) — 4% cheaper on output, with $0.07 less per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Gemma 3 27B pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Qwen3.8 Omni Flash API cost?
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.016 per million (89% cheaper). That works out to roughly 2,127,660 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Qwen3.8 Omni Flash?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0.0001 per request and $416 per month on Qwen3.8 Omni Flash. Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Qwen3.8 Omni Flash's 1M context window?
Sending 1M of input in a single request costs $0.15 at $0.15 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.016 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Qwen3.8 Omni Flash worth the price?
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 80% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.