Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B API Pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) · context window 1M · prices updated 2026-08-23
Where Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B sits on price
At $6.00 per million output tokens, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is a premium tier model — 2.7× the median output price of $2.25, which puts it cheaper than 30% and pricier than 70% of the models we track. It sits 49th cheapest of the 51 Alibaba (Qwen) models we track. Output is only 3.0× the input price, an unusually flat spread: long prompts hurt about as much as long answers, so prompt size is where the savings are.
Cached input is 88% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 28% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a premium-priced model — a $6.00/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win. | $0.0184 | $276 |
| Coding agent — 300 sessions/day (60K in / 12K out) Multi-step loops re-read the same files; caching matters more than raw price. | $0.192 | $1728 |
| Long-context analysis — 200 runs/day (250K in / 4K out) Only possible on large-context models; input cost is nearly the whole bill. | $0.524 | $3144 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B with caching and batch options.
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B price history
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B's price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 13, 2026 — 10 days of stability in a market where 55 of the 302 models we track have repriced over the same period, including 16 of Alibaba (Qwen)'s own 51 models.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 13, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch) (Google) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $1.00 less per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch) pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B API cost?
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.25 per million (88% cheaper). That works out to roughly 166,667 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.0184 per request and $276 per month on Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B. Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B's 1M context window?
Sending 1M of input in a single request costs $2.10 at $2.00 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.2621 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B worth the price?
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B sits in the middle of the market (49 of 51 by price within Alibaba (Qwen)). The honest test is a routing experiment: send the same 200 real requests to this model and to a tier below, and compare failure rate against the price gap — most teams find a majority of traffic never needed the pricier model.