Sources & verification notes
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bExact identifier & access
Identity and lifecycle apply to this exact identifier and serving surface.
- Model inference pricing (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, international site) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
First availability
Effective Aug 12, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Date from the Model Studio lifecycle table (Singapore tab); it is the Model Studio availability date and the same row can list the alias and its snapshot.
- Model lifecycle and updates, Singapore tab (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Availability status
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Priced on the international pricing page and served on its console page with no retirement notice; not listed among legacy models. Console page read in a browser session (Chrome DevTools).
- Model inference pricing (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, international site) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
- Model Studio console model page: qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b (Singapore, international) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Capabilities & limits
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Context window and maximum output from the model's own Model Studio console page (Singapore, international); the page is client-rendered and was read in a browser session (Chrome DevTools). K and M read as decimal thousands and millions, matching the pricing page's tier definition. Tools means function calling. Tools and structured output: the function-calling and structured-output pages list the Qwen3.8 open-source series as supported.
- Model lifecycle and updates, Singapore tab (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
- Model Studio console model page: qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b (Singapore, international) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
- Model Studio: Function calling (supported models) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
- Model Studio: Structured output (supported models) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Input price
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Derived from the captured rate card's standard token row.
- Model inference pricing (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, international site) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Output price
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Derived from the captured rate card's standard token row.
- Model inference pricing (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, international site) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Model card
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Lifecycle table: "2.4 trillion total parameters and about 95 billion activated per step, combined with a hybrid attention mechanism".
- Model inference pricing (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, international site) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
- Model lifecycle and updates, Singapore tab (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Official announcement
Effective Aug 3, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
qwen.ai blog pages are client-rendered; text and date read from the same post through qwen.ai's own article API (qwen.ai/api/v2/article/retrieval). The Qwen3.8-Max post announces the 2.4T-parameter (95B active) model and says its open weights follow; the lifecycle table calls qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b the open-source version of that flagship.
- Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Full rate card
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
- Model inference pricing (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, international site) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
License
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Not verified. These sources establish the identifier, not this missing fact.
- Model inference pricing (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, international site) ↗Alibaba Cloud · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026