Qwen3.8-Flash-Next released on Hugging Face
Alibaba published the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next image-text-to-text model on Hugging Face. The model card lists transformers and safetensors support, conversational use, eval results, and a custom license.
First seen 24 Aug, 08:24 UTC on Hugging Face · Qwen5 sourcesLast update 54d ago
AlibabaLaunch · 24 Aug
Qwen3.8 Flash
Open-weight model
$0.15 / $0.47per M tokens, in / out
1Mcontext
Openweights
How Qwen3.8 Flash compares
List prices per million tokens, context and Arena's text leaderboard, against Alibaba's other top models and the leading labs' best. The percentages are Qwen3.8 Flash's price against each.
| Model | Released | Input | Output | Context | Arena |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Flash | August 2026 | $0.15 | $0.47 | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Qwen3.8 Max | September 2026 | $2.00 -92% | $6.00 -92% | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Qwen3.8 27B | August 2026 | $0.42 -64% | $2.55 -82% | 1M | not ranked yet |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | September 2026 | $4.00 -96% | $20.00 -98% | 1M | #2 1507 |
| GPT-6 Astra | September 2026 | $10.00 -98% | $50.00 -99% | 1.05M | #30 1475 |
| Gemini 4 Argon | October 2026 | $2.00 -92% | $10.00 -95% | 1M | #1 1525 |
Arena ranks the best effort setting of each model among all models on its text leaderboard. Every model and price.
What the sources say
Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.
Official2
Hugging Face · Qwen· 24 Aug, 08:24Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next published on Hugging FaceHugging Face · Qwen· 24 Aug, 08:25Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 published on Hugging FaceHow it unfolded
Every source in the order it appeared. Times in UTC.
24 Aug 08:24Hugging Face · Qwen Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next published on Hugging Face24 Aug 08:25Hugging Face · Qwen Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 published on Hugging Face25 Aug 11:49Hacker News Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)26 Aug 14:40The Decoder Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"26 Aug 19:37OpenRouter Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash listed on OpenRouter
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