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Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

by Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b · #318 cheapest of 422 paid models

Prices updated Sep 20, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model from Qwen and the open-weight variant of [Qwen3.8 Max](/qwen/qwen3.8-max), with 95 billion active parameters out of 2.4 trillion total. It is...

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Pricing

Input

$2.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$6.00

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$3.00

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.25

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$3.00$0.21
50%$2.34$0.1225−42%
90%$1.82$0.0525−75%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.0028$2.80
Document summary8,0001,000$0.022$22.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.072$72.00
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.33$330.00

Performance

Intelligence Index

39.9

AA composite quality

Coding Index

71.9

Math Index

Agentic Index

50.4

Output speed

39 tok/s

median

Time to first token

1.88s

median

Time to first answer

53.08s

after reasoning tokens

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
GPQA Diamond93.5%
Humanity's Last Exam42.4%
SciCode54.1%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)80.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.182.0%
τ³-Bench Banking49.1%

Specs

Context window

1.05M

tokens

Max output

131K

tokens

Input modalities

text

Tokenizer

Qwen