# Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime

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

Qwen3.8 Max Prime is a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, served as a separate SKU at a higher price point. It accepts text, image, and video...

## Specs

- Context length: 1000000 tokens
- Max output: 131072 tokens
- Modalities: text, image, video
- Released: 2026-09-23

## Pricing

- Input: $4.00 per million tokens
- Output: $12.00 per million tokens

## Providers

- **qwen** — ctx 1000000, input $4.00/M, output $12.00/M

## Verdict

Qwen3.8 Max Prime delivers a massive 1M token context window at $4/$12 per Mtok — roughly half the cost of Claude Sonnet 4.5 for comparable context depth. It handles text, images, and video in a single model, making it a strong choice for multimodal analysis where you need to process entire video files or large document sets without chunking. The trade-off: no public benchmarks yet, so you're flying blind on reasoning quality and accuracy relative to established models. Reach for this when context length and multimodal support matter more than proven performance on standard evals.

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