Qwen3.8-Flash
Overview
Qwen3.8-Flash is the latest multimodal model from the Qwen family, combining powerful reasoning and generation with remarkable speed. It natively supports a million-token context window, allowing it to process lengthy documents, entire codebases, and complex conversations in a single pass. It shines in coding assistance, agentic workflows, and visual understanding — whether it's fixing code autonomously, operating desktop applications, or analyzing charts and long videos. Fully compatible with both OpenAI and Anthropic API protocols, it integrates seamlessly with popular developer tools like Claude Code and Codex, making it easy to build high-concurrency applications and intelligent workflows. With strong performance and highly competitive inference costs, Qwen3.8-Flash is an ideal choice for developers and businesses seeking the best of both worlds in AI applications.
Input
Output
Features
Prefix Completion
Enable Partial Mode when calling the Qwen API to make the model continue strictly from your provided prefix text.View docsFunction Calling
Use function calling to connect large language models with external tools and systems.View docsCache
Context Cache stores shared prefixes for long-context requests to reduce repeated computation, improve latency, and lower cost.View docsStructured Outputs
Structured Outputs help ensure the model returns a JSON string in the expected format.View docsPricing
- Input$0.16Per 1M tokens
- Output$0.47Per 1M tokens
- Input(Implicit Cache)$0.016Per 1M tokens
- Explicit Cache Creation$0.2Per 1M tokens
- Explicit Cache Read$0.016Per 1M tokens
Rate Limits & Context
- Max Input991K
- Max Output131K
- Max Input (Thinking)983K
- Max Output (Thinking)131K
- Context1M
- Max Reasoning262K
- TPMTokens Per Minute2M
- RPMRequests Per Minute15K
Built-in Tools
API Reference
Call APIfrom openai import OpenAI
import os
client = OpenAI(
# If the environment variable is not set, replace it with your Model Studio API key: api_key="sk-xxx"
api_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY"),
base_url="https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",
)
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you"}]
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.8-flash", # You can replace this with another deep thinking models
messages=messages,
extra_body={"enable_thinking": True},
stream=True
)
is_answering = False # Indicates whether the response phase has started
print("\n" + "=" * 20 + "Thinking process" + "=" * 20)
for chunk in completion:
if not chunk.choices:
continue
delta = chunk.choices[0].delta
if hasattr(delta, "reasoning_content") and delta.reasoning_content is not None:
if not is_answering:
print(delta.reasoning_content, end="", flush=True)
if hasattr(delta, "content") and delta.content:
if not is_answering:
print("\n" + "=" * 20 + "Full response" + "=" * 20)
is_answering = True
print(delta.content, end="", flush=True)from openai import OpenAI
import os
client = OpenAI(
# If the environment variable is not set, replace it with your Model Studio API key: api_key="sk-xxx"
api_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY"),
base_url="https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",
)
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you"}]
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.8-flash", # You can replace this with another deep thinking models
messages=messages,
extra_body={"enable_thinking": True},
stream=True
)
is_answering = False # Indicates whether the response phase has started
print("\n" + "=" * 20 + "Thinking process" + "=" * 20)
for chunk in completion:
if not chunk.choices:
continue
delta = chunk.choices[0].delta
if hasattr(delta, "reasoning_content") and delta.reasoning_content is not None:
if not is_answering:
print(delta.reasoning_content, end="", flush=True)
if hasattr(delta, "content") and delta.content:
if not is_answering:
print("\n" + "=" * 20 + "Full response" + "=" * 20)
is_answering = True
print(delta.content, end="", flush=True)