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Qwen3.8 Flash-Next announcement artwork from the official Qwen research page
AI Research
headsetAudio26 Aug 2026

Qwen3.8 Flash Reaches OpenRouter as Qwen Publishes Flash-Next

OpenRouter has added Qwen3.8 Flash, the production model Qwen says is served through QwenCloud with a one-million-token context and built-in tools. Qwen published the related Flash-Next open-weight preview on the same day.

smart_toyQwen1.0M ctx
IN:descriptionText+visibilityVision+videocamVideo
OUT:chatText
visionimage understanding$0.1/M
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OpenRouter artwork for the Qwen3.8-27B model route
AI Research
headsetAudio14 Aug 2026

Qwen3.8-27B Ships Open Weights with 262K Context

Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. The dense vision-language model has a native 262,144-token context, adjustable reasoning, image and video input, and a live OpenRouter route while Qwen Cloud hosting remains pending.

smart_toyQwen262K ctx
IN:descriptionText
OUT:chatText
reasoningtools$0.18/M
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