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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Weights available

Open-weight Qwen model with a 256K-token context window, image input and tool calling. Released August 26, 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-Flash-Next
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
$0.15
Output
$0.47

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Price history
Oct 1, 2026

Input Not applicable per million tokens

Oct 1, 2026

Output Not applicable per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
125B with 6B activated, plus 51B n-gram embedding and 4B MTP
Active parameters
6B
Architecture
Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder
Training / knowledge cutoff
Not published
Input modalities
Text, image, video
Output modalities
Text

License

Other: qwen-community-1.0 (as declared in the Hugging Face model card metadata)

How they describe it

This experimental preview of the architecture that will underpin Qwen4

Release & lifecycle

Published
Aug 26, 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.