Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Qwen3.8-27b qwen/qwen3.8-27b | Qwen 3 Max alibaba/qwen3-max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba Qwen | Alibaba |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 262,144 tok | 256,000 tok |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | 32,768 tok |
| Released | 2026-08-17 | 2026-06-22 |
| Input price | $0.450 /1M | $1.20 /1M |
| Output price | $3.20 /1M | $6.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | yes | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | — |
| JSON mode | yes | yes |
| Reasoning | yes | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
Qwen 3.8 27B is a 27-billion-parameter instruction-tuned language model from Alibaba's Qwen family, designed for vision, efficient general-purpose text generation and agentic workloads.
Alibaba's Qwen 3 Max is a large language model with strong coding, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities, served via DashScope's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Qwen3.8-27b
client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3.8-27b",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Qwen 3 Max — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-max",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)