Qwen3.8 Flash
Alibaba released a quick, lower-cost AI model that reads images and video and helps with coding and documents, for developers.
This came out before trckr began following OpenRouter, so it was added on Nov 6 without an alert. Its release date comes from models.dev.
Key facts
- Released
- Aug 26, 2026
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Watches video: Understands video clips you share with it.
Can I use it?
In an app
No app mentioned so far.
For developers
Developers can use it now through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet..
Download
Not downloadable: it runs on the maker's own servers.
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $0.15
- per million tokensCached: $0.016
- Output
- $0.47
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 1M tokens
- about 750,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 131K tokens (about 98,000 words)
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
Compare Qwen3.8 Flash with
It came out 12 days after Qwen 3.8 27B, the lab's previous model.
The details
A Multimodal: Works with more than text: a multimodal model can also look at images, listen to audio or watch video. Reasoning model: A model that thinks step by step before answering. Slower, but much better at maths, code and tricky questions. from Alibaba's Flash tier, suited to coding help, Agent: An AI that doesn't just answer but takes steps on its own to finish a task: searching the web, running code or using apps. workflows, visual understanding, document analysis and long-video analysis.
Model ID: The exact name developers type to use a model, like gpt-5-mini. New IDs often show up in a lab's systems before the official announcement, which is how trckr spots many releases early.
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