Models · Qwen (Alibaba)

Qwen3.8-Max API, 1.8x less than the official price

Qwen3.8-Max costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $3.30 per million output tokens on Kontinent AI. Qwen (Alibaba)'s official price is $2.00 and $6.00, so you pay 1.8x less (45% less).

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Price per million tokens

Tokens Official price Kontinent AI
Input Official price $2.00 $1.10
Output Official price $6.00 $3.30
Cached input Official price $0.25 $0.1375

USD per million tokens. The official price is Qwen (Alibaba)'s, on its price page. Ours is that price times 0.55, for every kind of token. This model thinks before it answers. The thinking is billed as output tokens, at the same multiple.

What jobs cost with Qwen3.8-Max

Job Official price, then ours
1,000 support-bot replies 1,500 tokens in and 500 out, each Official price $6.00 , Kontinent AI $3.30
One coding-agent session 200,000 tokens in and 20,000 out, uncached Official price $0.52 , Kontinent AI $0.29
1,000 document summaries 4,000 tokens in and 300 out, each Official price $9.80 , Kontinent AI $5.39

Each job is priced the way the API bills it. Work out your monthly bill.

Run Qwen3.8-Max for $0.29 a session, not $0.52

The same Qwen3.8-Max, through one API key. Change the base URL and the key, and keep your code. You see what every request cost and what you saved.

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Your monthly bill

Enter what you spend at the official price and see it on Kontinent AI, in your currency.

1.8x less than the official price

At the official price
$100.00
With Kontinent AI
$55.00
You keep
$45.00

The model

Maker
Qwen (Alibaba)
Model id
qwen3.8-max
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Weights
Open weights
Beyond plain chat
Tool calling, Structured output (JSON schema)
Speed, measured by us
33,479 ms to first token · 24.7 tokens/s (19 Oct)

Use Qwen3.8-Max

  • POST /v1/chat/completions: the OpenAI SDKs, OpenCode, most OpenAI-compatible tools.
terminal 
curl https://api.kontinentai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KONTINENT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "qwen3.8-max", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

Setup for each tool: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK.

Questions

How much does the Qwen3.8-Max API cost?

Qwen3.8-Max costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $3.30 per million output tokens on Kontinent AI. Qwen (Alibaba)'s official price is $2.00 and $6.00, so you pay 1.8x less (45% less). Cached input is $0.1375 per million tokens, against $0.25 official.

Is it the same Qwen3.8-Max?

Yes. We send your request to the model you name, and nothing else. We check the name of the model that answered on each response.

What does a coding-agent session cost with Qwen3.8-Max?

A session of 200,000 input tokens and 20,000 output tokens, uncached, costs $0.29 on Kontinent AI and $0.52 at Qwen (Alibaba)'s official price.

Can I use Qwen3.8-Max with OpenCode?

Yes. Point OpenCode at Kontinent AI by changing the base URL and the key. The setup pages in the docs show each one.

What is the context window of Qwen3.8-Max?

1M tokens (1,000,000), as Qwen (Alibaba) publishes it.

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Qwen3.8-Max is 45% less than Qwen (Alibaba)'s official price on every token. Top up a prepaid balance and call it from the tools you already use.

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