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Qwen

Qwen's international model platform and open-weight ecosystem, including the Qwen3.8 flagship line, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and text, vision, coding, image, video, audio, embedding and rerank APIs.

Globally availablePartial English UIPublic APIFreemium

Quick answer

Qwen Cloud makes Qwen available for global evaluation through an English marketplace, docs, pricing and compatible API paths.

Official sitePricingDocumentation
Pricing
Free tier, pay-as-you-go API usage and Token Plan subscriptions vary by model
Availability
Globally available
API
Public API
Last checked
2026-09-07
Pricing detailsUse-case fitSource evidence

Qwen is tracked across Qwen Studio, Qwen Cloud and official open-weight releases. Qwen Studio currently lists Qwen3.8-Max as the flagship with a 1M context and text, image and video input. Qwen's August 26 release separates Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open architecture preview with 125B total and 6B active parameters, from the hosted Qwen3.8-Flash production line; the release lists $0.16/M input and $0.47/M output and says API access is coming soon. Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B and Qwen3.8-27B remain separate open-weight deployment choices with different licenses and hardware requirements.

Topic guide

Qwen models, coding and multimodal ecosystem

A source-backed map of Qwen3.8 and Qwen3.7 models, open weights, Qwen Cloud APIs, Qwen Code, Token Plan and multimodal products.

Editorial verdict

Best for

Developers evaluating the Qwen3.8 line, Qwen Cloud APIs, coding agents and multimodal Chinese model coverage from an English international platform.

Avoid if

Avoid assuming QwenChat, Qwen open weights and Qwen Cloud Token Plan share the same limits, data terms or commercial rights.

Why it matters

Qwen Cloud makes Qwen available for global evaluation through an English marketplace, docs, pricing and compatible API paths.

Trust: 15/15 sources verified, recently checkedCoverage: 100/100

Pricing

Free tier, pay-as-you-go API usage and Token Plan subscriptions vary by model

Payment

Free web access, Qwen Cloud billing, Token Plan, Pay-as-you-go API billing

Commercial use

Check the license and cloud terms for each model and deployment path.

Privacy

Cloud API and self-hosted deployments have different data handling profiles.

Use-case fit

Coding assistant evaluation

Strong

Useful when comparing Chinese model families for coding and agent workflows.

Cloud API integration

Strong

Qwen Cloud documents OpenAI-compatible Responses, Chat Completions, Anthropic Messages and DashScope calling paths.

Multimodal generation stack

Strong

Use Qwen Cloud when you need one international surface for text, image, video, speech, embeddings and reranking.

Research and open-source tracking

Strong

Use the official research index to follow Qwen releases, open-source projects and research across coding, vision, speech, agents, safety and training methods.

Visual GUI and mobile agents

Strong

Qwen's current multimodal hosted models can be evaluated for screen understanding, visual references and agent workflows; confirm the exact model and feature availability before building around it.

Global user checklist

RegistrationConfirmedQwen Cloud exposes English models, docs, pricing, support, legal and trust-center pages.
English UIPartialQwen Cloud model marketplace and developer docs are English-facing.
API and docsConfirmedDocs show OpenAI SDK integration, DashScope international base URLs, model selection, tool calling, batch, streaming and async tasks.
Commercial usePartialCheck terms separately for Qwen Cloud APIs, Token Plan, QwenChat and open-weight deployments.

Qwen3.8 hosted and open-weight surfaces were rechecked on September 7, 2026. Flash-Next is an open architecture preview, while the official release describes Qwen3.8-Flash as the hosted production line with API access coming soon. Verify current pricing, infrastructure, model availability and each license separately.

Pros

  • - Qwen Cloud has an English model marketplace and docs
  • - OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible migration paths are documented
  • - Covers text, vision, image, video, speech, embedding and reranking
  • - The official research index exposes 60 release, open-source and research entries across the Qwen model family
  • - Qwen3.8-Max is currently listed as Qwen Studio's flagship with a 1M context and multimodal input
  • - Qwen3.8-Flash is the hosted production line while Flash-Next is tracked as its open architecture preview
  • - Qwen3.8 now includes official open 2.4T-A95B and 27B weights for text and multimodal deployment choices
  • - Qwen3.8-Flash-Next exposes an efficient 125B/6B active multimodal architecture with native 262K context

Cons

  • - Model names, quotas and preview status can change quickly
  • - Open-source Qwen, QwenChat and Qwen Cloud have different terms and billing paths
  • - Qwen Studio, Qwen Cloud, Qwen Chat and open-weight releases have different availability, pricing and license terms

Decision paths

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Sources

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next official model card

Official · EN · verified 2026-08-28

Confirms the open experimental architecture, license, 125B/6B active parameters, native vision, 262K context and optional 1M extension.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next official release

Official · EN · verified 2026-09-07

Separates the open Flash-Next preview from the hosted Qwen3.8-Flash line and records the published hosted price and API-coming-soon status.

Qwen Studio current model list

Official · EN · verified 2026-09-07

Lists Qwen3.8-Max as the flagship with 1M context and text, image and video input.

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B official model card

Official · EN · verified 2026-08-17

Confirms Qwen's first open Max-class model, 2.4T total and 95B active parameters, official weights and custom license.

Qwen3.8-27B official model card

Official · EN · verified 2026-08-17

Confirms Apache-2.0 open weights and text, image and video input support.

Qwen3.7-Max model page

Official · EN · verified 2026-08-04

Confirms model ID qwen3.7-max, text-only input/output, 1M context, 65.53K maximum output, 600 RPM, 1M TPM, built-in tools, closed-source status and current 50%-off rates of $1.25/M input and $3.75/M output tokens.

Qwen3.7-Plus model page

Official · EN · verified 2026-06-21

Confirms model ID qwen3.7-plus, image/text/video input, text output, 1M context, 65.53K maximum output, 15K RPM, 5M TPM, built-in tools and promotional API price ranges of $0.32-$0.96/M input and $1.28-$3.84/M output tokens.

Qwen Research

Official · EN · verified 2026-06-21

Indexes 60 official release, open-source and research entries spanning language, coding, vision, image, speech, multimodal, agent, safety and training work.

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview

Official · EN · verified 2026-05-20

Confirms the latest preview model family update.

Qwen Cloud model marketplace

Official · EN · verified 2026-06-21

Confirms the current international marketplace lineup across Qwen3.7-Max/Plus, Qwen3.6, HappyHorse video, Wan and Qwen-Image image generation, CosyVoice and third-party models.

Qwen Cloud developer docs

Documentation · EN · verified 2026-05-17

Confirms OpenAI SDK integration, DashScope international endpoints and model/API coverage.

Qwen Cloud model selection

Documentation · EN · verified 2026-05-17

Lists text, image/video, audio/speech, embedding and reranking model categories.

Qwen Cloud Token Plan

Pricing · EN · verified 2026-05-17

Confirms Token Plan subscriptions and mainstream OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible tool support.

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview

Official · EN · verified 2026-05-20

Confirms the latest hosted proprietary Qwen family release.

Qwen Chat

Official · EN · verified 2026-05-15

Overseas support report identifies this as Qwen's international web entry.

Last checked: 2026-09-07

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Availability snapshot

Availability
Globally available
English UI
Partial English UI
API
Public API
Rating
4.6 (14)

Latest updates

Latest changes
API · 2026-09-07

Qwen3.8 platform snapshot aligned with current official surfaces

Qwen's current official surfaces now need to be read as two separate layers: Qwen3.8-Max is listed as the flagship model in Qwen Studio, while the August 26 Qwen release describes Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as an open architecture preview and Qwen3.8-Flash as the production hosted line. The release lists Qwen3.8-Flash at $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, with API access still marked as coming soon. This directory keeps the preview, hosted model and open-weight variants separate instead of treating them as one product.

Open source · 2026-08-28

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next open weights added

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is now tracked as the experimental open architecture behind the production Qwen3.8-Flash line. The official model card documents 125B total parameters with 6B activated, a vision encoder, 262,144-token native context extendable to 1M, and qwen-community-1.0 weights.

Pricing · 2026-08-28

Qwen Cloud Token Plan individual pricing changed

The current individual Token Plan page lists Lite at $6/month with 2,500 credits per 7 days, Standard at $18 with 10,000 credits per 7 days and Pro at $68 with 40,000 credits per 7 days. The supported surface includes Qwen3.8-Max, GLM-5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro and Wan2.7 Image plus Qwen Code, Cline, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, Kilo CLI and OpenClaw. Checkout prices and eligibility remain subject to the live page.

Release · 2026-08-25

Qwen, Kimi and MiniMax ecosystem topics published

Three new topic hubs connect each ecosystem's current models, coding agents, API or subscription paths, multimodal products and practical selection guides. Ownership and product boundaries are called out where similarly named services come from different teams.

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