qwen3.8-flash vs qwen3.8-max

	qwen3.8-flash	qwen3.8-max
Providers	Qwen	Qwen
Input $/M	$0.12	$1.85
Output $/M	$0.42	$5.54
Output multiplier	×3.38	×3.00
Context window	1.05M tokens	1.05M tokens
Intelligence index	—	53.4
Coding index	—	68.9

What the numbers mean

qwen3.8-flash is roughly 15.0× cheaper on input than qwen3.8-max. If your workload passes the quality bar on the cheaper model, that gap compounds across every request; route to qwen3.8-max deliberately rather than by default.

Tags: qwen3.8-flash — Chat, Reasoning, Coding, Vision · qwen3.8-max — Chat, Reasoning, Coding, Vision

Code

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://starseaapi.com/v1", api_key="sk-...")

# qwen3.8-flash
client.chat.completions.create(model="qwen3.8-flash", messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Hi"}])

# qwen3.8-max
client.chat.completions.create(model="qwen3.8-max", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hi"}])