Qwen3.8: what the license allows, and what the maker charges
thecontinuitylayer.com/open-models/qwen3-8The open release of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 generation: a 2.4T-total, 95B-active flagship (Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B) and a 27B native vision-language model (Qwen3.8-27B), both on Hugging Face, with Qwen Cloud as the managed API.
- 1Partly
Is Qwen3.8 under an open license?
Partly, by Alibaba (Qwen)'s own page.
The 2.4T-A95B flagship is under the Qwen3.8-Max License, an MIT-style grant with conditions: a model-as-a-service or AI work assistant business with over $50 million in revenue over 12 months needs a separate license from Qwen, and a product with over 100 million monthly active users or $20 million monthly revenue must display the model name. Qwen3.8-27B is under Apache-2.0.
Yes means: The weights are under an OSI-approved license such as Apache-2.0 or MIT. Partly means the maker's own license with conditions, such as a user cap or an acceptable-use clause; no means research or non-commercial use only.
- 2Yes
Can you download Qwen3.8's weights?
Yes, by Alibaba (Qwen)'s own page.
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, Qwen3.8-27B and FP8 versions of both are published on Hugging Face under Qwen, with a Qwen3.8-Flash-Next repository alongside.
Yes means: The maker's page links the weights for download with nothing more than a click-through license. Partly means an access form, an approval step, or only some sizes released.
- 3Yes
Does the maker state Qwen3.8's context window?
Yes, by Alibaba (Qwen)'s own page.
The card states "Context Length: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,010,000 tokens." The 27B card states 262,144 natively, extensible to 1,000,000.
Yes means: A token count for the context window is on the maker's page or model card.
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Does the maker say what it takes to run Qwen3.8 on your own machine?
Partly, by Alibaba (Qwen)'s own page.
2.4T total and 95B active parameters for the flagship and 27B for the smaller model; the cards give no GPU memory figure, point to SGLang, vLLM and TokenSpeed for serving, and link community quantizations for llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio.
Yes means: The page states the parameter count and the memory or hardware it needs. Partly means the parameter count alone.
- 5Yes
Does the maker publish a price for its hosted Qwen3.8?
Yes, by Alibaba (Qwen)'s own page.
Qwen Cloud lists qwen3.8-max at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.25 and batch at $1 in and $3 out, on a 1M context. The 27B card says a hosted Qwen3.8-27B is coming soon.
Yes means: A per-token price on the maker's own pricing page. Partly means a hosted version exists but the price sits behind sign-in or a sales call.
- 6Not stated
Does the maker train on your prompts when you use its hosted Qwen3.8?
Alibaba (Qwen)'s pages do not say.
Qwen Cloud's data security page, the one its Trust Center links, covers encryption, regions, API keys and content moderation and does not say whether API inputs or outputs train its models; the privacy policy and terms pages did not render on the day checked. A copy of the same page on a second Qwen domain adds that they are not used for training.
Yes means: Here no is the good answer: the maker's page says what you send its API is not used for training. Yes means it is unless you opt out; partly means it depends on the plan or the page does not give the default.
- 7Partly
Can you fine-tune Qwen3.8 and keep the result?
Partly, by Alibaba (Qwen)'s own page.
The Qwen3.8-Max License permits modifying, fine-tuning, distributing, sublicensing and selling the software and derivative works, with the copyright and license notice kept in copies and the revenue and user thresholds above. Qwen3.8-27B under Apache-2.0 carries no threshold.
Yes means: The license allows fine-tuning and the fine-tuned weights are yours to keep and share. Partly means conditions follow the derivative, or a hosted fine-tune you cannot download.
License as stated: Qwen3.8-Max License; Apache-2.0 for Qwen3.8-27B.. Every grade above is read from Alibaba (Qwen)'s own page on the day shown. If a page has changed, tell us.