Qwen3.8 27B
alibaba/qwen3-8-27bBy Alibaba (Qwen) · family: qwen · released 2026-08-14
Prices in USD per 1M tokens. Unknown means the provider does not publish per-token pricing.
Capabilities
Model fit scores
0–100 · higher is betterThese scores reward declared capabilities, context size, price and provider availability — they are not benchmark results. Use them as a directional signal alongside your own evaluation.
Coding100
- Tool calling40/40
- Structured output20/20
- Reasoning10/10
- Context window (100K → 1M)20/20
- Provider availability10/10
Agents100
- Tool calling35/35
- Structured output25/25
- Reasoning15/15
- Output token limit15/15
- Provider availability10/10
JSON / structured output100
- Structured output / JSON mode50/50
- Tool calling20/20
- Temperature control10/10
- Price-friendly for high-volume20/20
Cost efficiency100
- Headline price (log-scaled)95/95
- Has prompt-cache pricing5/5
Long context91
- Context window (100K → 2M)81/90
- Has published price for full window10/10
Vision100
- Accepts image input50/50
- Context window (10K → 1M)30/30
- Has published price10/10
- Provider availability10/10
Production-readiness94
- Number of independent providers40/40
- Has published per-token price20/20
- Context window ≥ 8K15/15
- No data inconsistencies across providers4/10
- Official model (not derivative)15/15
Cost Efficiency Index
Open full calculator →Estimated cost using the recommended provider's headline rate. Each scenario fixes average input/output tokens — the assumptions are shown in the third column.
| Scenario | Cost | Assumption |
|---|---|---|
RAG answer per 1,000 RAG answers | < $0.01 < $0.01 per request | 5K input tokens (query + 4 retrieved chunks of ~1K each) and a 500-token answer. Typical SaaS knowledge-base bot. |
Support ticket triage per 10,000 tickets | $0.01 < $0.01 per request | 1K input tokens (ticket body + system prompt) and a 100-token JSON classification reply. High-volume customer support. |
Data extraction per 1,000 documents | < $0.01 < $0.01 per request | 2K input tokens (a single document page) and a 500-token JSON extraction. ETL / invoice / form pipelines. |
Code review per 1,000 PRs | < $0.01 < $0.01 per request | 8K input tokens (diff + surrounding files) and a 1K-token review comment. PR-bot workloads. |
Agent step per 1,000 steps | $0.01 < $0.01 per request | 12K input tokens (long-running tool history) and a 600-token tool-call decision. Cost per agent step. |
Pricing detail
Recommended pricing from ambient · unsloth/qwen3.8-27b-gguf
Cheapest provider: hetzner · Unknown input + Unknown output
Available on 52 providers
| Provider | Provider model id | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter openrouter | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.150 | $1.88 | 1.05M | 2026-08-14 |
| Vercel AI Gateway vercel | alibaba/qwen3.8-27b | $0.060 | $2.20 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Groq groq | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.800 | $4.00 | 131K | 2026-08-14 |
| Deep Infra deepinfra | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.200 | $2.50 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Hugging Face huggingface | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.400 | $3.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Kosmik Compute kosmik | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.350 | $2.20 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| RunInfra runinfra | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Novita AI novita-ai | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.420 | $3.00 | 1M | 2026-08-14 |
| Tempr Gateway tempr | groq/qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.800 | $4.00 | 131K | 2026-08-14 |
| Thinking Machines thinkingmachines | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.698 | $5.59 | 66K | 2026-08-14 |
| Vultr vultr | qwen3.8-27b | $0.150 | $1.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Charm Hyper hyper | qwen3.8-27b | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1M | 2026-08-14 |
| Munito AI munito | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.180 | $2.40 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Regolo AI regolo-ai | qwen3.8-27b | $0.580 | $2.42 | 120K | 2026-08-14 |
| Merge Gateway merge-gateway | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.400 | $3.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Cloudflare Workers AI cloudflare-workers-ai | @cf/qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.450 | $3.20 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Munito AI (EU) munito-eu | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.200 | $2.70 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| CoreWeave wandb | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.400 | $3.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| ai& aiand | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.400 | $3.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Hetzner hetzner | Qwen3.8-27B | Unknown | Unknown | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| SiliconFlow (China) siliconflow-cn | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.450 | $1.80 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Eden AI edenai | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1M | 2026-08-14 |
| CommandCode commandcode | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.400 | $3.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Kilo Gateway kilo | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.425 | $2.55 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Standard Compute standardcompute | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.425 | $2.55 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) llmgateway | qwen3.8-27b | $0.080 | $0.350 | 1M | 2026-08-14 |
| Berget.AI berget | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 | $0.460 | $3.48 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| LLM Gateway llmgateway-providers | alibaba/qwen3.8-27b | $0.500 | $3.00 | 984K | 2026-08-14 |
| LLM Gateway llmgateway-providers | consensusprotocol/qwen3.8-27b | $0.080 | $0.350 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Cortecs cortecs | qwen3.8-27b | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1M | 2026-08-14 |
| TensorX tensorx | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.400 | $2.40 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| engy engy | qwen3.8-27b | $0.045 | $0.320 | 1.00M | 2026-08-14 |
| AKI.IO aki-io | qwen3.8-27b | $0.336 | $2.47 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| OrcaRouter orcarouter | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.330 | $2.40 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Scaleway scaleway | qwen3.8-27b | $0.684 | $3.76 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| NEAR AI Cloud nearai | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.040 | $1.35 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| IteraCompute iteracompute | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | Unknown | Unknown | 131K | 2026-08-14 |
| evroc evroc | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.870 | $3.50 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| NanoGPT nano-gpt | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.150 | $0.700 | 1.05M | 2026-08-14 |
| NanoGPT nano-gpt | TEE/qwen3.8-27b | $0.200 | $2.50 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| EmpirioLabs AI empiriolabs | qwen3-8-27b | $0.170 | $0.500 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| AI/ML API aimlapi | alibaba/qwen3.8-27b | $0.476 | $3.39 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Opper opper | qwen3.8-27b | $0.581 | $3.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| AMD amd | Qwen3.8-27B | Unknown | Unknown | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Nebius Token Factory nebius | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B | $0.450 | $3.00 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Ofox ofox | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.500 | $1.71 | 1.13M | 2026-08-14 |
| Ofox ofox | bailian/qwen3.8-27b | $0.450 | $3.20 | 1.13M | 2026-08-14 |
| OVHcloud AI Endpoints ovhcloud | qwen3.8-27b | $0.470 | $3.19 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Prime Inference prime | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.450 | $3.20 | 262K | 2026-08-14 |
| Ambient ambient | qwen/qwen3.8-27b | $0.320 | $3.20 | 33K | 2026-08-14 |
| Ambient ambient | unsloth/qwen3.8-27b-gguf | $0.001 | $0.001 | 101K | 2026-10-13 |
| Blue Claw blueclaw | Qwen3.8-27B | Unknown | Unknown | 131K | 2026-08-14 |
Data inconsistencies across providers
- context_window varies: 1000000, 1001536, 101072, 1048575, 1048576, 1131072, 120000, 131042, 131072, 262000, 262144, 32768, 65536, 983616
- release_date varies (span 60d): 2026-08-14, 2026-10-13
- modalities varies across offerings
Different providers report different values for this model. Quick facts above use the representative provider; consult the table for per-provider truth.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Qwen3.8 27B cost?
Qwen3.8 27B costs $0.001 per 1M input tokens and $0.001 per 1M output tokens, sourced from ambient. Cache reads, audio tokens and >200K-context tiers (where applicable) are listed in the Pricing detail block above.
What is the context window of Qwen3.8 27B?
Qwen3.8 27B has a context window of 1.05M tokens, with a max output of 236K tokens per reply. This is the total combined size of prompt + completion.
Does Qwen3.8 27B support tool calling?
Yes. Qwen3.8 27B supports tool calling (function calling). This makes it suitable for production agent and automation workloads where the model has to invoke external functions reliably.
Does Qwen3.8 27B support structured output / JSON mode?
Yes. Qwen3.8 27B supports structured output / JSON-schema-constrained decoding. This makes it suitable for production agent and automation workloads where the model has to invoke external functions reliably.
Can Qwen3.8 27B accept image input?
Yes. Qwen3.8 27B accepts both text and image input. Vision pricing per image is usually billed on top of the regular token rate — check Alibaba (Qwen)'s docs for the exact rule.
Is Qwen3.8 27B open-weight?
Yes. Qwen3.8 27B's weights are publicly available, so you can self-host or fine-tune. Note that open weights ≠ open source — the training data and code are typically not released.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen3.8 27B?
If Qwen3.8 27B doesn't fit, consider Qwen3.8 Max, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, Qwen3.8 Flash. Each one targets the same use case — see the Related links below for direct head-to-head pages.
Where does this data come from?
All numbers are normalised into a single canonical model record and reconciled with each provider's official documentation. We re-pull daily and write any changes (price, context, capability) to the /changelog page.
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- Qwen3.7 Max$2.50 in / $7.50 out
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Pricing and capabilities are refreshed daily and reconciled against each provider's official documentation. Always verify critical production decisions with the provider directly.