Alibaba Cloud Cuts Prices for Qwen3.8-Flash Model

Alibaba Cloud announced that starting August 27, 2026, it will cut prices for its Qwen3.8-Flash model on the Bailian platform. The input price will drop from 1 yuan to 0.8 yuan per million tokens, and output from 3 yuan to 2.7 yuan.

Qwen3.8-Flash is the latest multimodal model from the Qwen series. It supports a million-token context window, handling long documents, code repositories, and complex conversations. It excels in coding assistance, agent collaboration, and image-text understanding. The model is compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, making it suitable for high-concurrency apps and smart workflows.

So far, Qwen has open-sourced three model sizes: Qwen3.8-Max, Qwen3.8-27B, and Qwen3.8-Flash, all available via API on the Qwen AI platform. The price cut aims to lower costs for developers and boost AI adoption.