# Qwen — models, pricing & selection | Y-API

> Alibaba’s Qwen appears on Y-API as a single entry, Qwen3.8 Flash: a multimodal reasoning model that accepts text, images and video over a one-million-token window, with document and chart understanding in the same selection as coding work.

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Vendor scope: 1 reviewed model.

Sources reviewed: 2026-10-04. Y-API catalog snapshot: 2026-10-04.

## About this vendor

Vendor-level selection advice by Y-API. The per-model pages linked below carry the model-specific checks; nothing here is a measured comparison.

### Where this vendor fits

Qwen3.8 Flash is one of the cheapest catalog entries that accepts video input, which makes it the natural first candidate for high-volume chart, document and screenshot workloads priced at $0.20 per million input tokens.

### What to watch for

A single-model lineup concentrates upgrade risk: the ID you pin is the whole story, and the linked Flash-Next card describes an architecture, not a promise of what the gateway serves. Video input listed upstream still needs its own Y-API compatibility test.

## Models on Y-API

Prices are account-credit snapshots from the Y-API catalog. Each model links to its own guide with a cost estimator and a request example.

| Model | Context window | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Qwen3.8 Flash](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/qwen/qwen3.8-flash) | 1,000,000 | $0.20 | $0.50 |

$1 paid adds $10 of credit; the cash equivalent is credit consumed ÷ 10. These are Y-API prices, not the publisher’s list prices.

## Choosing within the lineup

With one Qwen entry the real decision is whether it fits at all: compare it against GLM 5.3 Flash and Step 3.7 Flash on the same multimodal inputs, and against DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on text-only cost.

## Before you choose

### Why does Qwen have only one model here?

The Y-API catalog currently lists exactly one Qwen entry, Qwen3.8 Flash. This page exists so the vendor URL resolves and the entry stays reachable; other Qwen versions are not available under different IDs on this gateway.

## Sources & scope

Vendor scope on this site is exactly the reviewed model guides listed above; a vendor page exists only while at least one of its models is reviewed. Claims about architecture or positioning follow the cited pages. We do not publish measured latency, uptime or benchmark scores for any vendor.

- [OpenRouter vendor page](https://openrouter.ai/qwen)
- [Publisher organization on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/Qwen)
- [Y-API catalog & prices (JSON)](https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models.json)

## Links

- HTML version of this page: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models/qwen
- Site index for agents: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/llms.txt
- Full reference (single file): https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/llms-full.txt
- OpenAPI 3.1 spec: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/openapi.json
- Model catalog (JSON, no key needed): https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models.json
- API base URL: `https://api.y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/v1`
- Contact: support@bestvirtualgoods.com
- Model catalog: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/models
- Integration guide: https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/docs