Qwen3.8 Max costs $1.14 per Intelligence Index task, more than double Qwen3.7 Ma
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open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
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.
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.
Why it matters
Per-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 → price went down while real cost per task more than doubled. Anyone budgeting an AI agentAn 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.Full definition → workload on published token rates would get this badly wrong.
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Qwen3.8 Max costs $1.14 per Intelligence Index task, more than double Qwen3.7 Max ($0.53) and ~1.3x open weights leader Kimi K3 (max, $0.86). The increase is driven by more agentic turns rather than pricing: per-token prices fell from Qwen3.7 Max ($2.00/$6.00 vs $2.50/$7.50 per https://t.co/TmOR26GzES
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