Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) is a closed Alibaba model released 2026-09-03, listed on OpenRouter at $2 per million input tokens and $6 output with a 1,000,000-token context and text, image and video input. A Max Prime variant released later costs $4 and $12, so there are several tiers in this line. Unlike the open 27B and Flash models, Max has no weights to download, so it is a hosted-only choice. We would suggest it for people who want the strongest Qwen model on a hosted API and are comfortable with a closed licence. The limit is that open Qwen models cost far less, and our Qwen page shows the vendor scores for them. We have not tested Max ourselves, and we make no benchmark claim here. Prices and specifications come from the OpenRouter listing we checked on 31 October 2026, and we have not tested the model ourselves.