Qwen 3.8 Max API in Australia
Alibaba’s flagship, and the first Max-tier Qwen with downloadable weights. Priced in Australian dollars for teams in Australia, on the same key as every other model.
Qwen 3.8 Max API pricing in Australia
In Australian dollars, the currency your card is charged in, with the published US dollar rate beside each.
For scale: 1,000 requests of about 3,000 tokens in and 1,000 out cost A$19.49 — a long prompt and a page of answer each. Every rate is published and stays the same from one request to the next. See every model.
Prices are our published US dollar rates converted at A$1.47 to the dollar, our rate for October — the same rate your card is charged.
About Qwen 3.8 Max
Qwen 3.8 Max is Alibaba’s top model and the first Max-class Qwen whose weights you can download — a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture of experts. Alibaba trained it to check its own visual output, and reports 67.7% on SWE-bench Pro, 92.6% on GPQA Diamond and 86.1% on the OSWorld computer-use test.
Through the API it reads images and video and holds a million tokens; the downloadable version is text-only with a shorter context. It thinks before answering, at three effort levels.
What is Qwen 3.8 Max good for?
- Frontier-level coding agents.
- Operating desktop software.
- Research and analysis across long documents.
Where to be careful
- Every headline score is from Alibaba’s internal runs.
- The licence on the open weights restricts very large AI-service companies.
Specs
qwen3.8-maxUsing Qwen 3.8 Max from Australia
Roar AI provides access to Qwen 3.8 Max through the Roar AI gateway, charged in Australian dollars on one bill with every other model. Requests from Australia go through our gateway in Singapore today; a gateway in Sydney is coming. Developers can use Qwen 3.8 Max alongside other supported models without a separate integration for every provider.
Use the OpenAI SDK you already have — point it at Roar AI and name the model. Read the docs.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.roar-ai.com/v1", api_key="roar_live_…")
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.8-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this contract in plain English."}],
)Where is Qwen 3.8 Max processed?
Requests to Qwen 3.8 Max are processed in Singapore, outside Australia. The model directory says where each model is processed.
Questions
How much does Qwen 3.8 Max cost in Australia?
Input is A$3.25 per 1M tokens; output is A$9.75 per 1M tokens. For scale, 1,000 requests of about 3,000 tokens in and 1,000 out cost A$19.49. Prices are our published US dollar rates converted at A$1.47 to the dollar, our rate for October — the same rate your card is charged. The rate is published and does not change from one request to the next.
Is Qwen 3.8 Max open source?
Its weights are open under the Qwen3.8-Max License licence, so you could run it yourself. Through Roar AI you call it like any other model, with no servers to manage.
Try Qwen 3.8 Max
on one key
Sign up, get a key and call it with the SDK you already use. Pay in your local currency, on one bill.