Qwen3.8 Max vs GPT-6 Sol
Qwen3.8 Max costs $2.00 / $6.00 and GPT-6 Sol costs $2.00 / $10.00 per million input / output tokens. At a typical 3:1 mix, Qwen3.8 Max is 1.3× cheaper than GPT-6 Sol.
Input
$2.00
per 1M
Output
$6.00
per 1M
Cached
—
1M context
GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI
Input
$2.00
per 1M
Output
$10.00
per 1M
Cached
$0.20
1.05M context
Side by side
Green marks the cheaper price, larger context window, bigger discount or higher score.
| Detail | Qwen3.8 Max | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Input per 1M | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Output per 1M | $6.00 | $10.00 |
| Blended per 1M (3:1) | $3.00 | $4.00 |
| Cached input per 1M | — | $0.20 |
| Batch or off-peak discount | None | 50% (batch) |
| Long prompts | Same rate at any length | Over 272K: 2× in, 1.5× out |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Released | 3 Aug 2026 | 22 Sep 2026 |
| Open weights | No | No |
| Verified | 27 Sep 2026 | 27 Sep 2026 |
Sources: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing and OpenAI pricing.
Monthly cost on three workloads
List prices, no batch discount. The cached share applies where a model has a cache rate.
| Workload | Qwen3.8 Max | GPT-6 Sol | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer chat assistant50,000 conversations a month, about 2,000 tokens in and 400 out each; 50% cached | $320 | $310 | $10.00 |
| Document Q&A (RAG)20,000 questions a month over retrieved documents, 12,000 in and 600 out; 30% cached | $552 | $470 | $81.60 |
| Coding agent400 tasks a month, 40 steps each with a growing context; 85% cached | $1,548 | $433 | $1,116 |
How they differ
- Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper on output ($6 vs $10), which matters most for long answers and reasoning models.
- GPT-6 Sol accepts longer prompts (1.05M vs 1M tokens).
- Only GPT-6 Sol publishes a cached-input rate.
- Only GPT-6 Sol offers a batch discount for jobs that can wait.
Recent changes
All changes- OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol at $2 / $10 and GPT-6 Luna at $0.10 / $0.50.
- OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra at $10 / $50, its most expensive standard model.
- Qwen3.8 Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) and GLM-5.3 Flash ($0.15 / $0.50) launched.
- Alibaba launched Qwen3.8 Max at $2 / $6.
