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# Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B: $0.400/M in, $3.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3.8 27B

Qwen · released 2026-08-14 · apache-2.0

 $1.05 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

**+4** on the capability index and **29% cheaper** ($0.750/M against $1.05/M). What you lose:

 - 131K → 66K max output

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.400 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $3.00 /M |
| Cached input | $0.050 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 52 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 68.1 |
| Agentic | 50.9 |
| LMArena Elo | 1440.8 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 1M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 131K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | yes |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| 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...