Qwen3.8-27B costs $0.80 per million input tokens and
$4.00 per million output tokens on Groq. It ranks #45 cheapest of 76
LLM APIs we track on a blended price of $1.60 per million tokens.
Input
$0.80
per 1M tokens
Output
$4.00
per 1M tokens
Cached input
—
no caching discount listed
Blended
$1.60
per 1M · 3 input : 1 output
What Qwen3.8-27B costs for real workloads
| Workload | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 100K messages | $184.00 |
| RAG search: 10K queries with 6K-token context | $68.00 |
| Batch summarization: 1,000 long documents | $20.00 |
| Coding agent: 100 tasks, 50K context x 20 turns | $88.00 |
Chatbot: 800 input + 300 output tokens per message. RAG: 6,000 + 500 per query. Summarization: 20,000 + 1,000 per document. Coding agent: 20 turns per task over a 50K-token context, with 95% of input served from cache where the model supports it.
Qwen3.8-27B vs similarly priced models
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $1.50 | |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $1.50 | |
| Gemini 1.5 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $1.50 | |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $1.50 | |
| grok-4.3 | xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | $1.56 |
| grok-4.20-0309-reasoning | xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | $1.56 |
| grok-4.20-0309-non-reasoning | xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | $0.20 | $1.56 |
| Qwen3.8-27B | Groq | $0.80 | $4.00 | — | $1.60 |
| Gemini 2.0 Live | $0.75 | $4.50 | — | $1.69 |
Prices last checked November 8, 2026 · re-checked twice a week from official pricing pages and APIs · How we collect prices
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Qwen3.8-27B pricing FAQ
How much does the Qwen3.8-27B API cost?
Qwen3.8-27B costs $0.80 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens on Groq. Prices as of November 8, 2026.
How much does Qwen3.8-27B cost for 1,000 requests?
At 1,000 input and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests cost about $2.80.
Is Qwen3.8-27B expensive compared to other LLM APIs?
It ranks #45 cheapest of 76 models we track on a blended price (3 input tokens per output token) of $1.60 per million tokens.
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