# Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Provider: qwen  
Category: llm  
Model ID: `qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902`

Qwen3.8 Max 0902 is an updated snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team. It is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that accepts text, image, and video input and returns text,...

## Specs

- Context length: 1000000 tokens
- Max output: 131072 tokens
- Modalities: text, image, video
- Released: 2026-09-03

## Pricing

- Input: $2.00 per million tokens
- Output: $6.00 per million tokens

## Providers

- **qwen** — ctx 1000000, input $2.00/M, output $6.00/M

## Verdict

Qwen3.8 Max delivers exceptional value at $2/$6 per Mtok with a massive 1M token context window and multimodal support spanning text, images, and video. It competes directly with frontier models at roughly one-third the cost, making it ideal for teams running high-volume workloads or processing long documents with embedded media. The trade-off: as a newer release from Alibaba Cloud, it lacks the extensive third-party benchmark validation of OpenAI or Anthropic models. Reach for this when budget constraints meet demanding multimodal tasks.

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Last verified: 2026-10-19T02:30:34.239Z  
Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/models/qwen3-8-max-0902