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 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba Qwen | OpenAI |
| Family | Qwen | |
| Modality | text | image |
| Context window | 262,144 tok | — |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | — |
| Released | 2026-08-17 | 2026-09-10 |
| Input price | $0.450 /1M | $0.030 /img |
| Output price | $3.20 /1M | — |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | yes | — |
| Streaming | yes | — |
| Vision | yes | — |
| JSON mode | yes | — |
| Reasoning | 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.
OpenAI's most capable image generation and editing model. It accepts text and image inputs and produces images with low, medium, high, xhigh, max, and auto quality settings.
# 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 GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)