Qwen3.8 27B
Qwen's compact 27B dense open model that reads text, images and video.
Price
What the gateway charges per million tokens: what you send in, and what the model writes back.
Source: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25.
- Input
- $0.50per 1M tokens
- Output
- $3per 1M tokensOutput costs 6x the input.
Specs
How much it reads at once, how much it writes back, and how recent its knowledge is.
Sources: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25; Hugging Face, checked 2026-09-25.
- Context window
- 1M tokens1,000,000
- Max output
- 131K tokens131,072
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not listed
- Released
- Type
- Language
- Modalities
- Takes text, image, PDF, video. Returns text.
- License
- apache-2.0
- Gateway ID
alibaba/qwen3.8-27b
Capabilities
What the gateway says this model supports.
Source: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25.
- Reasoning
- Tool use
- Vision
- Implicit caching
- Video input
- File input
- Explicit caching
- Structured output
Data handling
What happens to your prompts, and what you have to switch on.
Source: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25.
ZDRSome providers
Zero data retention
Available on a paid Vercel plan through the AI Gateway, from some providers on it (you turn it on).
NTSome providers
No training on prompts
Offered by some providers on the Vercel AI Gateway, when you turn it on.
Usage
How much people actually run it, as counted where it is served.
- downloads
- 6.8M6,765,008 downloads
Counted on Hugging Face over the 30 days to 2026-09-25.
- requests
- 58.5M58,477,185 requests
- tokens
- 1.3T1,302,780,065,784 tokens
Counted on OpenRouter over the 31 days to 2026-09-25.
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