Question 1

What is Qwen3.8 27B?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3.8 27B is a model from Qwen, released on Aug 14, 2026. Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen. It is suited for coding, professional workflows, research, multimodal interaction, and long-running agent tasks, with flexible thinking that can be...

Question 2

How much does Qwen3.8 27B cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.02 per 1M tokens on Wafer, and output starts at $0.50 per 1M tokens on EmpirioLabs, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 10 providers, it costs $0.39 per 1M input tokens and $2.55 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve Qwen3.8 27B on Respan?

Accepted Answer

10 providers serve Qwen3.8 27B: Wafer, EmpirioLabs, DeepInfra, Parasail, Novita, OpenRouter, and 3 more. Groq requires your own provider API key (BYOK).

Question 4

What is Qwen3.8 27B's context window?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3.8 27B accepts up to 1M tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Qwen3.8 27B with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "qwen3.8-27b". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Qwen3.8 27B?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 36 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 0.9 seconds on Wafer. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Question 7

Where does Qwen3.8 27B rank on the Respan Index?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3.8 27B scores 40.5 out of 100 on the Respan Index v1.1, ranking #45 of 138 models. By category: Coding 23.4, Agents 57.4, Reasoning 32.0, Knowledge & language 40.7, and Human preference 54.7. The Respan Index combines independent and lab-reported benchmark results into one score, using benchmark data collected by llmmetric.com.

Question 8

How does Qwen3.8 27B score on benchmarks?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3.8 27B has 17 published benchmark scores, including LiveBench Coding 75.7%, LiveBench Agentic Coding 61.4%, and GPQA Diamond 89.2%. Each score links to where it was published; the data is collected by llmmetric.com.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
Wafer`wafer/Qwen3.8-27B`	262K	$0.02/M	$4.40/M
EmpirioLabs`empiriolabs/qwen3-8-27b`	262K	$0.17/M	$0.50/M
DeepInfra`deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`	262K	$0.20/M	$2.50/M
Parasail`parasail/parasail-qwen38-27b`	262K	$0.24/M	$2.20/M
Parasail`parasail/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`	262K	$0.24/M	$2.20/M
NovitaSave 10%`novita/qwen/qwen3.8-27b`	1M	$0.38/M	$2.70/M
OpenRouter`openrouter/qwen/qwen3.8-27b`	1M	$0.42/M	$2.55/M
Nebius`nebius/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`	262K	$0.45/M	$3.00/M
GroqBYOK only`groq/qwen/qwen3.8-27b`	131K	$0.80/M	$4.00/M
Cerebras`cerebras/qwen-3.8-27b`	131K	$0.99/M	$1.49/M

Qwen3.8 27B

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Throughput and latency

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Respan Indexv1.1

Coding3

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Qwen3.8 27B FAQ

Works with your entire stack

Built for AI agents.
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Agents2

Reasoning4

Math1

Knowledge2

Arena4

Other1