Qwen3.8-Flash on @qwen_cloud: $0.15/1M input tokens, $0.47/1M output tokens, and just $0.016/1M on cache hits. ☁️ Come give it a try! 👇 https://t.co/FQWEVpkUyt
Qwen's August 27 announcement priced Qwen3.8-Flash separately for ordinary input, generated output and cache hits: $0.15, $0.47 and $0.016 per million tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → respectively. The lowest figure therefore applies specifically to cache hits, rather than every token an application sends or receives. The accompanying service announcement advertised a native 262K-token context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition →, extensible to one million. These were the advertised launch terms.
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token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
