Qwen3.8 Max pricing: real cost per million tokens
What Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max really costs across 3 plans from 3 providers: monthly fees, usable allowances and real per-token prices, against the official API list price and independent leaderboards.
Data updated · How real prices are computed
As of 2026-10-08, the cheapest way to use Qwen3.8 Max is Droid Max at a real cost of about $0.03959 per million tokens ($200/month for roughly 5.052B tokens a month). We track 3 plans and API channels that serve Qwen3.8 Max.
- Lowest real price
- $0.03959/MTokDroid Max
- API list price
- —
- Most monthly tokens
- 5.052BDroid Max
- Plans & APIs
- 33 subscriptions · 0 metered APIs
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Qwen3.8 Max plans and real prices
Real price = monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use in a month. “vs API” shows how many times cheaper than the official API list price (standard workload mix) the plan is. “Evidence” opens the full calculation and sources for that row.
| Plan | Provider | Billing | Monthly fee | Monthly tokens | Real $/MTok | vs API | Confidence | Data date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Droid Max | Factory | Subscription | $200/mo | 5.052B | $0.03959 | — | Medium | Evidence ↓ | |
| Command Code GOAT | Command Code | Subscription | $10/mo | 0.062B | $0.1613 | — | Medium | Evidence ↓ | |
| OpenCode Go | OpenCode | Subscription | $10/mo | 0.047B | $0.2151 | — | Medium | Evidence ↓ |
Behind each number
For every plan: the data date, the exact calculation, the quota basis, how leaderboard scores were mapped, and the original adoption evidence with its sources.
Droid MaxFactory$0.0395883/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-09-29 · derived; uses the data date of Droid Max · claude-opus-5.5
- Real price / MTok
- $0.0395883
- Monthly tokens
- 5,052,000,000 (5.052B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $200 / month ÷ 5,052,000,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.0395883 / MTok
- Quota basis
Anthropic workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% cache writes / 0.5% output
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.5: Low (1 configuration)
OpenDesign Arena · Quality ranking: Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
Derived from same-plan claude-opus-5.5 2.526B × 2.0
Factory official multipliers Opus 5.5 1.6× / qwen3.8-max 0.8×: the same Standard Usage pool scaled by multiplier — not a measurement of this model; inherits the Opus 5.5 row's Anthropic-tier workload, not recomputed for each model's own price gap; docs.factory.ai/docs/models; droid-model-multipliers-2026-09-29.json; Droid Core models draw Standard Usage first, then a separate free open-source pool applies (independent cap unmeasured); this value counts only the Standard Usage part
droid-model-multipliers-2026-09-29.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Command Code GOATCommand Code$0.16129/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-09-30 · official source date
- Real price / MTok
- $0.16129
- Monthly tokens
- 62,000,000 (0.062B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $10 / month ÷ 62,000,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.16129 / MTok
- Quota basis
Standard workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% input / 0.5% output
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.5: Low (1 configuration)
OpenDesign Arena · Quality ranking: Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
https://commandcode.ai/docs/plans/goat official per-model allowance and three-part pricing; https://commandcode.ai/pricing; $10->$70 credits; code-subscriptions-round1-2026-09-06.json; goat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.json
Added 62M: min(shared monthly pool $70, model allowance $20) ÷ project standard-workload weighted price; official three-part pricing. Processing fee ignored; allowances of different models in the same plan are not additive; no usage-panel token+% screenshot — computed from official absolute credits and the price list
https://commandcode.ai/docs/plans/goathttps://commandcode.ai/pricing;code-subscriptions-round1-2026-09-06.jsongoat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
OpenCode GoOpenCode$0.215054/MTok
- Plan
- OpenCode Go · OpenCode
- Data date
- 2026-09-30 · official source date
- Real price / MTok
- $0.215054
- Monthly tokens
- 46,500,000 (0.047B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $10 / month ÷ 46,500,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.215054 / MTok
- Quota basis
Standard workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% input / 0.5% output
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (1 configuration)
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA): Low (1 configuration)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto): Low (1 configuration)
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.5: Low (1 configuration)
OpenDesign Arena · Quality ranking: Low (1 configuration)
DeepSWE v1.1: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
https://opencode.ai/docs/go/ official per-model Usage and three-part pricing; opencode-go-round5-2026-09-06.json; goat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.json
Added 46.5M: min(shared monthly pool $60, model Usage $15) ÷ project standard-workload weighted price; single official tier. The official request counts serve only as a cross-check and are no longer the primary allowance figure; allowances of different models in the same plan are not additive
https://opencode.ai/docs/go/goat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.jsonopencode-go-round5-2026-09-06.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Qwen3.8 Max benchmark scores
Highest archived configuration per leaderboard; ranks are among all models each board archives in this dataset. Scores are never mixed across boards.
| Leaderboard | Metric | Score | Rank | Configuration | Effort | Harness | Configs | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | Intelligence Index | 40.15 | #22 / 60 | Qwen3.8 Max | Max | — | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | Resolution Rate % | 18.69 | #23 / 53 | Artificial Analysis - Qwen3.8 Max | Max | Artificial Analysis | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| Code Arena | WebDev Overall | Arena Score | 1,671 | #8 / 54 | qwen3.8-max | Max | — | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto) | Net Improvement % | 2.8 | #18 / 39 | Qwen3.8 Max | Max | — | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.5 | Coding Agent Index | 43.27 | #14 / 19 | Claude Code - Qwen3.8 Max | Max | Claude Code | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| OpenDesign Arena · Quality ranking | Average task score | 72 | #13 / 16 | Qwen 3.8-Max | Max | OpenDesign | 1 | 2026-10-01 |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | Pass@1 % | 57.46 | #20 / 33 | mini-swe-agent - qwen3-8-max (xhigh) | Max | mini-swe-agent | 1 | 2026-09-03 |
Every archived configuration
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 1 configuration
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) 1 configuration
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis - Qwen3.8 MaxAA's own-harness independent measurement of Terminal-Bench 4.0 (the terminalBench40 field in the models-board payload, fraction×100); scored separately from the official tbench.ai board. | 18.6869 | — | Artificial Analysis / Max / — | — / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
Code Arena | WebDev Overall 1 configuration
Agent Arena · Overall (Ranking / Pareto) 1 configuration
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.5 1 configuration
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code - Qwen3.8 MaxScore belongs to this named agent/harness × model configuration; it is not a harness-independent model measurement. indexScore stored as percent (raw fraction × 100). | 43.2653 | — | Claude Code / Max / — | $3.479 / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
OpenDesign Arena · Quality ranking 1 configuration
DeepSWE v1.1 1 configuration
These are reference mappings, not benchmarks of a subscription or API channel. Harness and quota-measurement effort alignment are unverified. Source task costs are not subscription task costs.
- Exact served-model reference; quota-measurement effort is unverified.
- Exact served-model reference only; product harness and quota-measurement effort are unverified. Not a benchmark measurement of this subscription or API channel.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Qwen3.8 Max really cost per million tokens?
Measured as monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use, Qwen3.8 Max ranges from $0.03959 (Droid Max) to $0.2151 (OpenCode Go) per million tokens.
Which subscription gives the most Qwen3.8 Max usage?
Droid Max allows roughly 5.052B tokens of Qwen3.8 Max per month for $200.
How does Qwen3.8 Max score on independent leaderboards?
Qwen3.8 Max has scores on 7 leaderboards; its strongest placement is 1,671 (Arena Score) on Code Arena | WebDev Overall, #8 of 54 models tracked.
Who makes Qwen3.8 Max, and where can I use it?
Qwen3.8 Max (model ID qwen3.8-max) is made by Alibaba and is available through Command Code, Factory, OpenCode.
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