Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen Releases the Full Qwen3.8 Model Lineup Along with API Integration and Selection Guide

Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen has launched the full Qwen3.8 model lineup, which adopts a sparse MoE architecture, natively supports multimodal input of text, images, and short videos across the entire lineup, supports a context window of up to one million tokens, and is compatible with the OpenAI API protocol. The flagship version Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion total parameters, activates 95 billion effective parameters during inference, and has a maximum output of 131,072 tokens; when deep thinking is enabled, the chain of thought can reach up to 262,144 tokens. There is also Qwen3.8-Flash, aimed at high-concurrency, low-latency scenarios. The article also provides cURL and Python streaming call examples, the billing methods for context caching and pay-as-you-go, and selection recommendations by scenario and deployment form.