Qwen3.8 27B
Alibaba
Key facts · verified Oct 14, 2026
Qwen3.8 27B is an Alibaba model released on 17 Aug 2026. Its API price is $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens. Its context window is 1M tokens. It ranks #100 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1438, read 14 Oct 2026). Source: huggingface.co.
Qwen3.8 27B is Alibaba's dense 27-billion-parameter vision-language model, released with open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence and listed in Model Studio on August 17, 2026. The weights support 262,144 tokens natively, extensible to 1,000,000; the hosted API lists a 1M-token window at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens (international region).
Pricing & specs checkedSource: vendor documentation · checked Oct 14, 2026LMArena: 1438 Elo (rank 100) · source · retrieved Oct 14, 2026
Key Features
Open Weights Vision Long Context
Full Specifications
$0.50 / $3 per million tokens | |
|---|---|
| Identity | |
| Developer | Alibaba |
| Released | Aug 2026 |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $1.125 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.500 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $3.000 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Capability | |
| Vision in | Yes |
| Access | |
| API | Yes |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1438 (checked Oct 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 100 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 1278 |