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Qwen3.8 Max

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MedianThe median blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted.
$3.00
Most expensiveThe highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted.
$3.75
Offers
30
Providers
20

Cheapest right now

Scx-ai-gp

via LLM Gateway

$2.31 blended / 1M tokens

No change7D
in
$1.54
out
$4.63
Cached input
$0.198

Price drop observed: The blended price is 23% lower than before this drop; possibly temporary. · Price drop observed since Oct 12, 2026Fee 5%: LLM Gateway adds a 5% fee on credit usage, plus 1.5% for cards issued outside the US (read on llmgateway.io/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with the 5% included.

Previous price $2.00 / $6.00

Public leaderboards

  • Text Arena, style controlThe series the source publishes by default for text since 16 May 2025: ranks corrected for the style of the answers (style control). #14 of 419Best rank in the source's rank spread, 14th to 43rd, given the confidence intervals of all ranked models. 24th by score. 1,482 1,478 to 1,487Arena Score · 31,915 votes
  • Code Arena (WebDev)The Code Arena ranking (WebDev). The source publishes no style-corrected series (as read on 9 October 2026). #10 of 152Best rank in the source's rank spread, 10th to 20th, given the confidence intervals of all ranked models. 15th by score. 1,672 1,660 to 1,684Arena Score · 3,406 votes
  • Agent Arena aggregateThe Agent Arena aggregate score: a score of another kind (not an Arena score), on a scale of its own; it cannot be compared with the other series. #23 of 57Best rank in the source's rank spread, 23rd to 32nd, given the confidence intervals of all ranked models. 31st by score. 0.004 −0.002 to 0.011IPS score · 7,792,769 observations

Source: Arena (opens in a new tab) · Data under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · scores and ranks as published on 28 Oct 2026; the presentation is ours

Qwen3.8 Max: the lowest current price is $2.31 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix), a promotional price at Scx-ai-gp, checked on ; the median of the 16 comparable offers is $3.00.

Listed offers, by price

Comparable offersOther offersSolid steps are comparable offers; dashed steps are the other offers, which are not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive.Official list price

Offers not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive (14)

  • $1.95 · Alibaba via Eden AI · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $2.48 · DeepInfra via Eden AI · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $2.71 · UCloud · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $2.71 · ShengSuanYun via ShengSuanYun · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $3.00 · Alibaba via LLM API · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $3.00 · Novita via LLM API · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $3.00 · Abacus RouteLLM via Abacus RouteLLM · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $3.00 · Charm Hyper via Charm Hyper · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $3.00 · FastRouter via FastRouter · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $3.00 · OrcaRouter via OrcaRouter · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $3.00 · Alibaba via LLM Gateway · another route of the same provider
  • $3.00 · Novita via LLM Gateway · another route of the same provider
  • $3.00 · Alibaba via Requesty · another route of the same provider
  • $3.00 · Novita via Requesty · another route of the same provider

Cheapest that confirms no training on your prompts. The provider's published policy: prompts are not used for training.

DeepInfra

directYou buy access straight from the company that runs the model on its servers. · 256k

$2.48 blended / 1M tokens

in
$1.65
out
$4.95
Cached input
$0.206

Price historyThe cheapest offer each day, against the lab's official list price when it publishes one. Each day at 00:00 UTC, the offer the API would have selected as the cheapest, with the same exclusions as /cheapest. Blended price, promotions included.

Cheapest offer and official list price, by day, 30 days
DayCheapest offerOfficial list price
2026-10-02$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-03$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-04$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-05$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-06$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-07$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-08$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-09$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-10$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-11$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-12$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-13$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-14$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-15$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-16$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-17$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-18$1.95, Alibaba$2.48
2026-10-19$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-20$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-21$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-22$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-23$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-24$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-25$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-26$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-27$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-28$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-29$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-30$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48
2026-10-31$2.31, Scx-ai-gp$2.48

Cheapest offerOfficial list price

Offers

The 25 cheapest of 30 offers

Offers for Qwen3.8 Max, one row per offer, sorted by blended price.
RankProvider · viaYou buy access through an aggregator: one account and one API that forward your requests to other providers. "Via" names the aggregator; the price is the one it charges you. When "via" says "hosted API", no aggregator is involved: the model belongs to a lab and another provider sells it.Input $/1MOutput $/1MBlended $/1MA single price that mixes input and output: 3 input tokens for 1 output token, per million tokens. It makes offers easy to rank; your real cost depends on your own mix. ContextThe maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut.ConditionsWhat a provider says about how it handles your data and who can sign up: training on prompts, processing region, sign-up requirements. Each comes from the provider's published documents; when nothing is published, it stays unknown.SignalsOffer
1 Alibabavia Eden AI 1.30 3.90 1.95 1M Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapestBelow the lab's list price: Resold below the lab's list price (−21% vs lab list price), without a declared discount.
2 Scx-ai-gpvia LLM Gateway 1.54 4.63 2.31 – Price drop observed: The blended price is 23% lower than before this drop; possibly temporary. · Price drop observed since Oct 12, 2026Fee 5%: LLM Gateway adds a 5% fee on credit usage, plus 1.5% for cards issued outside the US (read on llmgateway.io/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with the 5% included.
3 Alibaba 1.65 4.95 2.48 –
4 DeepInfra 1.65 4.95 2.48 256k United States
5 DeepInfravia Eden AI 1.65 4.95 2.48 256k United States Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
6 EmpirioLabs AI 1.65 4.95 2.48 984k
7 Qiniu 1.80 5.41 2.71 1M
8 PPIO 1.80 5.41 2.71 1M
9 UCloud 1.80 5.41 2.71 – Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
10 ShengSuanYun 1.80 5.41 2.71 1M Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
11 Alibaba 2.00 6.00 3.00 –
12 AtlasCloud 2.00 6.00 3.00 1M
13 EmpirioLabs AI 2.00 6.00 3.00 984k
14 Novita 2.00 6.00 3.00 1M
15 Alibabavia LLM API 2.00 6.00 3.00 – Unconfirmed. Last checked 18 October 2026: the last published value, not a confirmed one Unverified. The source page shows one price per model, not this seller's: listed, not designated cheapest
16 Novitavia LLM API 2.00 6.00 3.00 – Unconfirmed. Last checked 18 October 2026: the last published value, not a confirmed one Unverified. The source page shows one price per model, not this seller's: listed, not designated cheapest
17 Abacus RouteLLM 2.00 6.00 3.00 262k United States Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
18 Charm Hyper 2.00 6.00 3.00 – Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
No public offer page
19 FastRouter 2.00 6.00 3.00 1M Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
20 HPC-AI 2.00 6.00 3.00 1M
21 NanoGPT 2.00 6.00 3.00 991k Thinking: Thinking: a mode of the model, not its standard offer. Never designated cheapest while a standard offer exists
22 OrcaRouter 2.00 6.00 3.00 1M Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
23 Vercel AI Gateway 2.00 6.00 3.00 –
24 ZenMux 2.00 6.00 3.00 1M
25 Alibabavia LLM Gateway 2.00 6.00 3.00 – Fee 5%: LLM Gateway adds a 5% fee on credit usage, plus 1.5% for cards issued outside the US (read on llmgateway.io/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with the 5% included.

No training on promptsPrompts may be used for trainingTraining terms not published

backend not named. The router bills this price itself without naming who serves the model.

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Blended = (3 × input + output) / 4, per million tokens. Prices in USD, converted at the ECB rate when the provider bills in another currency.

Method

Monthly cost for your workload

Computed by the API for the three cheapest offers, per 30-day month.
  1. Scx-ai-gp$161.87per month
  2. Alibaba$173.27per month+$11.40 vs the cheapest
  3. DeepInfra$173.27per month+$11.40 vs the cheapest

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