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Qwen3.8-27b vs Qwen 3 Max

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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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
License
Open-weight
Proprietary
Input price
$0.450 /1M
$1.20 /1M
Output price
$3.20 /1M
$6.00 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Qwen3.8-27b
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Full spec →

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.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Qwen 3 Max
alibaba/qwen3-max
Full spec →

Alibaba's Qwen 3 Max is a large language model with strong coding, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities, served via DashScope's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Qwen3.8-27b
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3.8-27b",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Qwen 3 Max
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3-max",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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