qwen

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime

qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime

Our take

AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.

OpenRouter's catalog presents qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime as an Alibaba Qwen model and a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max, offered as a separate SKU. The catalog lists text, image, and video inputs with text output, a million-token context window, tool and structured-output support, and mandatory reasoning with configurable effort down to minimal. These are catalog-reported capabilities, not measured results. No independent model card was available in this source pack, and the supplied benchmark fields contain no usable scores, so real-world quality and throughput still require workload validation.[1]

Strengths

OpenRouter lists text, image, and video input with text-only output.[1]
The catalog describes a higher-throughput variant and reports a one-million-token context window.[1]
Selectable reasoning effort, tool calls, structured outputs, response formatting, and common sampling controls are listed.[1]

Limitations

Only OpenRouter catalog evidence was supplied; an independent model card was not available, so capabilities and positioning remain source-reported.[1]
The supplied benchmark fields are empty or null, with no measured quality, latency, or throughput results; validate against the intended workload.[1]
Reasoning is mandatory in the catalog, so applications requiring a non-reasoning generation mode may not fit.[1]

Where to use it

Potentially useful for multimodal analysis or drafting that combines text, images, or video and requires text output.[1]
Potentially useful for long-document workflows, provided real context behavior is validated first.[1]
Potentially useful for assistants or agent workflows needing tool calls, structured outputs, and explicit reasoning controls.[1]

Sources

[1] OpenRouter catalog · Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max PrimeSources checked: Nov 13, 2026

About this model

Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.

Qwen3.8 Max Prime is a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, served as a separate SKU at a higher price point. It accepts text, image, and video...

Specifications

Model ID: qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime
Canonical ID: qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime-20260923
Creator: qwen
Added to OpenRouter: 23.09.2026
Context length: 1,000,000
Modality: text+image+video->text
Input modalities: text, image, video
Output modalities: text
Token pricing: USD per 1M tokens: in $4 / out $12
Knowledge cutoff: —
Expiration date: —

Tasks and capabilities

A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.

Task	Grade	Source-declared capability
General quality	No measurement	reasoning: mandatory · default xhigh · efforts: xhigh, high, medium, low, minimal · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning, reasoning_effort
Coding	No measurement	—
Agents	No measurement	parameters: structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools
Writing	No measurement	output: text
Reasoning	No measurement	reasoning: mandatory · default xhigh · efforts: xhigh, high, medium, low, minimal · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning, reasoning_effort
Document analysis	No measurement	—
Vision	No measurement	input: image
Image generation	No measurement	—
Audio	No measurement	—
Video	No measurement	input: video
Embeddings	No measurement	—

Evaluations

No evaluations are supplied for this model.

How grades work

Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.

S — S — top 10% of the cohort
A — A — next 20% of the cohort
B — B — next 30% of the cohort
C — C — below the B band

Providers

Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.

Provider	Context length	Price in /1M	Price out /1M	Latency p50 (30m, s)	Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s)	Uptime (30m)
Alibaba	1,000,000	$4	$12	—	—	100%

Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026

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