Qwen3.8 Max API in India

Qwen3.8 Max is the flagship of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 generation, live on unoblox as qwen/qwen3.8-max. It supports reasoning and tool calling and bills in rupees with a GST invoice.

What Qwen3.8 Max is

Alibaba launched Qwen3.8 Max on 3 August 2026 as its largest and most capable Qwen model, aimed at coding, agents and demanding reasoning. unoblox lists a context length of 256,000 tokens, reasoning and tool calling, with text in and text out. Use the figure on unoblox when sizing prompts.

It sits above Qwen3.8 Flash in capability and in price.

Where it fits

• Complex coding tasks and code review across large inputs.
• Agent workflows with many tool calls and planning steps.
• Difficult analytical writing where you want the strongest Qwen model.

Pick Max when quality is the priority and per-token cost is secondary. For volume, Qwen3.8 Flash costs a fraction as much; the previous-generation Qwen3 Max is also in the catalogue for comparison.

₹ pricing for Qwen3.8 Max

On unoblox, Qwen3.8 Max costs ₹158.87 per million input tokens and ₹476.69 per million output tokens. That displayed price is what you are billed per token; nothing is added on top. Cached input tokens are listed at ₹19.83 per million. The model's context length on unoblox is 256,000 tokens.

Model	Input (₹ / 1M tokens)	Output (₹ / 1M tokens)
Qwen3.8 Max	₹158.87	₹476.69
Qwen3.8 Flash	₹10.88	₹36.78
Qwen3 Max	₹115.54	₹577.70
Qwen3.5 397B A17B	₹43.33	₹288.85

As a worked example, a month with 20 million input tokens and 4 million output tokens comes to about ₹5,084.16 on Qwen3.8 Max (₹3,177.40 for input plus ₹1,906.76 for output). Live rates are always on the model page, and each request is rounded up to the nearest paisa.

Calling Qwen3.8 Max from the unoblox endpoint

unoblox is OpenAI-compatible, so any OpenAI SDK works by changing the base URL and key.

curl https://api.unoblox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_UNOBLOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3.8-max",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this support ticket in two lines."}],
    "max_tokens": 512
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_UNOBLOX_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.unoblox.ai/v1",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3.8-max",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this support ticket in two lines."}],
    max_tokens=512,
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Get a key at https://unoblox.ai/sign-in and top up your wallet in rupees.

Notes on parameters, billing and data

Use max_tokens for output limits. The model runs at an external provider and not in India, so no data-residency claim is made. unoblox adds rupee pricing, GST invoicing and one endpoint.

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max available in India? Yes, as qwen/qwen3.8-max on https://api.unoblox.ai/v1.

What is the context length on unoblox? 256,000 tokens.

Does it support reasoning? The catalogue lists reasoning and tool calling.

How is it priced? Per million tokens in rupees; see the table above.

What is it best for? Alibaba aims it at coding, agents and demanding reasoning; test it against your own tasks.

Do I get a GST invoice? Yes.

Get started in rupees → https://unoblox.ai/sign-in