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.

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

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

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