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Qwen 3.8 27B
Open weightsDenseapache-2.0Released Aug 14, 2026
Alibaba's open-weight 27B dense vision-language model in the Qwen 3.8 family. It builds on the Qwen 3.6 27B line with stronger coding and office productivity capabilities across text and visual modalities, supports one million tokens of context through hosted APIs, and is suited to multimodal assistants, document work, coding, and long-running agent tasks.
ChatText completionFunction callingVisionCode generationReasoningtext · image · video · code
Available from 2 providers
Cheapest
OpenRouter
$0.32 / $2.50
Alibaba Model Studio, OpenRouter
Providers (2)
Sorted by total cost (input + output per 1M tokens). Select a row to view provider details.
| Provider | Pricing (per 1M) | Rate limits | Regions | Health | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In: $0.32Out: $2.50 | 60 RPM / 200K TPM | us-east-1 | Healthy | 0ms |
| In: $0.50Out: $3.00 | 5K RPM / 5.0M TPM | ap-east-1 | Healthy | 0ms |
Quick start
Use this model via OpenRouter with an OpenAI-compatible SDK.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "qwen/qwen3.8-27b",
messages: [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }
],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);Using OpenRouter API · OpenAI-compatible SDK