Sources & verification notes
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-NextExact identifier & access
Identity and lifecycle apply to this exact identifier and serving surface.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
First availability
Effective Aug 26, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
README news: "2026-08-26: We release Qwen3.8-Flash-Next". The blog's timestamp is "2026-08-26T20:30:00+08:00" (read through the qwen.ai article API); it says the model "is available as an open-weight model on HuggingFace and ModelScope".
- QwenLM/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next README (news) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Availability status
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Repository is listed in the Qwen organization on Hugging Face and the card was readable on the observation date.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Capabilities & limits
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Image input follows the Hugging Face pipeline tag and the card type; tool and structured-output support were not verified. Context from the "Context Length" line of the model card ("Context Length: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,000,000 tokens."). Review 2026-10-01: Tools: the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GitHub README serves the model with "--enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder". No structured-output support documented. The card recommends setting the maximum output length to 262,144 (reasoning) / 131,072 (final response) tokens; that is a serving recommendation, not a stated model limit.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
- QwenLM/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next README (news) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Input price
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Downloadable weights.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Output price
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Downloadable weights.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Reference price
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
OpenRouter's listed price for qwen/qwen3.8-flash (https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.8-flash), which OpenRouter maps to this Hugging Face repo. USD per million tokens; a host's price, not the developer's.
- OpenRouter models API ↗OpenRouter · host-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Model card
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
Parameter and architecture fields are copied from the model card text; fields the card does not state are left empty.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Official announcement
Effective Aug 26, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
Provider description
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
License
Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.
- Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model card (Hugging Face) ↗Qwen · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026