Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
180.0 B
Context
—
30d
2.8 M
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
403.4 B
Context
—
30d
667 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 180.0 B 403.4 B
Architecture Qwen4ExpForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 1,000,000 262,144
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,788,737 667,204
Downloads all time 3.6 M 6.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-24 2026-02-16
API input price / 1M tokens $0.15 $0.50
API output price / 1M tokens $0.47 $3.60
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.62 $4.10
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.016 $0.30
AA Intelligence Index — 21.4
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 131,072 235,929
API providers 1 10
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next $0.62
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B $4.10

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is 6.6× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 30 days (25 Sep – 24 Oct)

2.8 M601 K
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · fp16 423.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B · fp16 948.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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