QwenText Generation/v1/ai/chat

Qwen3.8 Max Prime API

Access Qwen3.8 Max Prime through one API key. Qwen3.8 Max High-Throughput.

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 for faster output. Max Prime is for latency-sensitive use of Qwen's flagship: interactive coding assistants and agents where tokens per second matter more than price.

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Qwen3.8 Max Prime API pricing

Pay per request from your YepAPI balance — no subscription, no monthly minimum. Prices updated September 27, 2026.

Token type	Price
Input	$5.91 / 1M tokens
Output	$17.72 / 1M tokens
Context window	1M tokens

What it costs	Per job	Per 1,000
Chat reply1K input + 500 output tokens	$0.015	$14.77
RAG answer8K input + 800 output tokens	$0.061	$61.46
Agent step with tools30K input + 2K output tokens	$0.213	$212.74
Long document summary100K input + 2K output tokens	$0.626	$626.44

4,900+

Developers

2.3M+

API calls served

184

Endpoints

$0.01

Per call

Yep, that's it.

Try it live

Send a message and see Qwen3.8 Max Prime respond in real time.

POST/v1/ai/chatqwen/qwen3.8-max-prime

Message *

Max Tokens

Maximum tokens in the response.

Stream

Real-time tokens

Hit "Send Request" to see the response

Qwen3.8 Max Prime specs

Provider	Qwen
Model ID	qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime
Endpoint	/v1/ai/chat
Type	Text Generation
Context window	1M tokens
Max output	131K tokens
Reasoning	No
OpenAI-compatible	Yes — /v1/ai/chat/completions

How to get a Qwen3.8 Max Prime API key

1
Create an account
Sign up at yepapi.com with Google or email. It takes about 30 seconds.
2
Create an API key
Open the dashboard, go to API Keys and create a key. Copy it — it starts with yep_sk_.
3
Call Qwen3.8 Max Prime
Send a request to /v1/ai/chat with the x-api-key header and model "qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime".
4
Pay as you go
Usage is billed per request from your balance. Top up any amount; there is no subscription.

Strengths

✓

Faster Qwen3.8 Max

Same capability as Qwen3.8 Max, served for higher output throughput.

✓

Text, image and video input

Multimodal input including video.

✓

1M context, 131K output

Handles up to 1,000,000 input tokens and returns up to 131,072 output tokens per call.

✓

Tools and structured output

Function calling and JSON schema outputs.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls with Qwen3.8 Max Prime.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai/chat', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explain API gateways in 2 sentences."
      }
    ],
    "maxTokens": 256
  }),
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data.message.content);

Qwen3.8 Max Prime vs similar models

Every model below runs on the same API key — switch by changing the model ID.

Model	Provider	Price	Context
Qwen3.8 Max Prime	Qwen	$5.91 in / $17.72 out per 1M	1M
Qwen3.7 Flash	Qwen	$0.04 in / $0.19 out per 1M	1M
Qwen 3.5 Flash	Qwen	$0.10 in / $0.38 out per 1M	1M
Qwen 3.5 9B	Qwen	$0.25 in / $0.37 out per 1M	262K
Qwen3.8 Flash	Qwen	$0.22 in / $0.69 out per 1M	1M
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	Qwen	$0.22 in / $0.69 out per 1M	1M
Nemotron 3 Super	NVIDIA	$0 in / $0 out per 1M	262K
Solar Mini 4	Upstage	$0.07 in / $0.30 out per 1M	524K

Why use Qwen3.8 Max Prime through YepAPI?

✓One API key for all models — no separate accounts

✓OpenAI SDK compatible — just change the base URL

✓No monthly minimums — pay per token

✓Switch models with one line of code

✓Full provider passthrough — citations, search results, and all extras included

✓Streaming and non-streaming support on every model

✓Works with Cursor, Claude, LangChain, and any LLM tool

✓Unified billing across all providers

Qwen3.8 Max Prime API — pricing, context window & access

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 for faster output. It pairs a 1,000,000-token context window with up to 131,072 output tokens per response, at $5.91 per 1M input and $17.72 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI.

Through YepAPI you call Qwen3.8 Max Prime on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a single key — the same key that reaches GPT-6, Claude, Gemini, Grok and the SEO, SERP and scraping APIs. Input: text, images, video.

What is Qwen3.8 Max Prime?

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 for faster output. It accepts text, image and video input with a 1,000,000-token context window and up to 131,072 output tokens. It accepts text, images, video as input, handles up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and returns up to 131,072 output tokens per call.

Build with Qwen3.8 Max Prime via YepAPI

YepAPI serves Qwen3.8 Max Prime on the OpenAI-compatible /v1/ai/chat endpoint. Point your base URL at YepAPI, add your key, and set the model string to qwen3.8-max-prime (or the full qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime). Function calling, structured outputs and reasoning settings pass straight through, and switching to any other model on the platform is a one-string change per request.

Qwen3.8 Max Prime API pricing — $5.91 / 1M input, $17.72 / 1M output

Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs $5.91 per 1M input tokens and $17.72 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, pay per token with no minimums. Failed calls are never charged, and every request is itemised in your dashboard API Logs so you can see exactly what a 131,072-token response cost.

Qwen3.8 Max Prime use cases

Max Prime is for latency-sensitive use of Qwen's flagship: interactive coding assistants and agents where tokens per second matter more than price.

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What developers say

“Switched from SerpAPI and cut our SERP costs by 80%. Same data quality, way simpler billing.”
Marcus T.
SEO Platform Founder

“One API key for AI models, SERP data, and web scraping. Saved us from managing 4 separate providers.”
Priya S.
Full-Stack Developer

“The $5 free credit let us prototype our entire rank tracking feature before committing. No other API does that.”
Jake R.
Indie Hacker

Frequently asked questions

Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs $5.91 per 1M input tokens and $17.72 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, billed per request with no monthly fee. For example, a chat reply (1K input + 500 output tokens) costs about $0.015.

Sign up at yepapi.com (Google or email, about 30 seconds), open the dashboard and create an API key. The same key works for Qwen3.8 Max Prime and every other model — no separate Qwen account or waitlist.

Use "qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime" as the model on /v1/ai/chat. The short alias "qwen3.8-max-prime" also works.

Yes. Point the OpenAI SDK at https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai with your YepAPI key and set model to "qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime". Streaming works the same way, so existing OpenAI code only needs the base URL and key changed.

Qwen3.8 Max Prime supports a 1M token context window with up to 131K output tokens per request.