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Qwen3.8 27B
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Price under confirmation since 2026-10-12. Upstream lists another price for this model now, or other prices from its sellers. What is shown is the last we published; the new figures are published once a second day shows the same values. · Serving precision differs between offers.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 30 points · 58% lower measured price · $0.238 / 1M tokens (Price under confirmation since Oct 12, 2026)
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a further stored option with these losses: 236K → 131K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,441.1 ± 5.24 · 20,711 votes
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- 235.93K
- Input modalities
- text, image, video
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.089 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.98 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Ionstream: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery, with at least 90% of the reference context and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.
Price under confirmation since 2026-10-12 Upstream lists another price for this model now, or other prices from its sellers. What is shown is the last we published; the new figures are published once a second day shows the same values.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.089/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.98/M |
| Cached input | $0.085/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.990/M from Cerebras.
18 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rekareka Endpoint terms
| $0.024 | $4.35 | undeclared | 99.77% |
| Waferwafer Endpoint terms
| $0.024 | $4.35 | undeclared | 99.94% |
| DekaLLMdekallm Endpoint terms
| $0.049 | $3.00 | undeclared | 99.80% |
| Darkbloomdarkbloom/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.050 | $2.20 | fp4 | 99.87% |
| Ionstreamionstream/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.089 | $1.98 | fp8 | 97.57% |
| DeepInfradeepinfra/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $1.88 | bf16 | 99.38% |
| Phalaphala Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $1.88 | undeclared | 97.67% |
| Mancer 2mancer/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.200 | $2.50 | fp8 | 90.12% |
| AkashMLakashml/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.225 | $1.98 | fp8 | 99.85% |
| Parasailparasail/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.240 | $2.20 | fp8 | 99.92% |
| Chuteschutes/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.240 | $2.20 | fp8 | 99.42% |
| CoreWeavecoreweave/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.400 | $3.00 | fp8 | 99.96% |
| Novitanovita Endpoint terms
| $0.420 | $3.00 | undeclared | 99.93% |
| Alibabaalibaba Endpoint terms
| $0.425 | $2.55 | undeclared | 99.28% |
| Venicevenice/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.450 | $3.20 | fp8 | 99.21% |
| ModelRunmodelrun/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.450 | $3.00 | fp4 | 99.57% |
| Cloudflarecloudflare Endpoint terms
| $0.450 | $3.20 | undeclared | 90.27% |
| Cerebrascerebras/fp16 Endpoint terms
| $0.990 | $1.49 | fp16 | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1441.1default |
|---|---|
| LMArena row | qwen3.8-27b |
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 235K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | yes |
Provenance
| Price source | Published record of 2026-10-06, under confirmation since 2026-10-12 |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-13 |
| Held | Price and provider offers kept at the published record of 2026-10-06 until a second day confirms the newer upstream value. |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |
Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen. It is suited for coding, professional workflows, research, multimodal interaction, and long-running agent tasks, with flexible thinking that can be...
Questions this page answers
What does Qwen3.8 27B cost?
$0.089/M in, $1.98/M out: the published record of 2026-10-06, under confirmation since 2026-10-12. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Qwen3.8 27B have an independent quality score?
Qwen3.8 27B has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Qwen3.8 27B?
GLM 5.3 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3.8 27B?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest Qwen3.8 27B endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.990/M from Cerebras.
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