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Qwen3.8-27B

Weights available

Open-weight Qwen model with a 256K-token context window, image input and tool calling. Released August 14, 2026. Weights on Hugging Face.

Access details: Qwen open weights (Hugging Face)

The Hugging Face repository. Download the weights and run them yourself or with a host.

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Also on the Qwen API as qwen3.8-27b

Updated Oct 1, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
256K
Maximum output
Not published
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Not published

Hosted price

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$0.50
Output
$3.00

What Qwen charges for qwen3.8-27b, its API version of this model.

Free to download. Running the weights costs whatever your hardware or host charges.

Price history
Oct 1, 2026

Input Not applicable per million tokens

Oct 1, 2026

Output Not applicable per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
27B
Architecture
Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder
Training / knowledge cutoff
Not published
Input modalities
Text, image, video
Output modalities
Text

License

Apache-2.0

From Qwen

How they describe it

Built on the architectural foundation of Qwen3.5, Qwen3.8 delivers substantial gains across coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks.

Release & lifecycle

Published
Aug 14, 2026
available
As of Oct 1, 2026

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Prices and availability as of October 20, 2026. Qwen's own pages have the latest.