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ddxvtoday at 3:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

It seems this is the only mention of cost?

> Qwen3.8-Max comes with the official support for reasoning_effort, which can be used to adjust reasoning depth and control cost:

> xhigh (default): for complex tasks demanding thorough analysis

> medium: balancing accuracy and speed

> low: efficient reasoning optimizing for speed and cost

I hope this is significantly cheaper. I've been loving Deepseek for it's nearly free usage costs, hard to justify switching from cents per day.


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Jowseytoday at 3:16 AM

They mention it explicitly in the Twitter post [0].

> Pricing: Input: $2.0 / M tokens Output: $6.0 / M tokens Implicit Caching: $0.25 / M tokens

[0]: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084100707423289643

daemonologisttoday at 3:16 AM

The linked qwencloud page has pricing; it's $2/6.

https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8-max

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