{"slug": "qwen-3-8-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "title": "Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway", "summary": "Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Flash model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, supporting text and image inputs with a 1 million token context window and up to 65k output tokens, recommended for coding, tool use, and multi-step agent workflows. The integration allows developers to use the model via the AI SDK and connect it to coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Pi, with AI Gateway offering unified API access, usage tracking, and no markup on pricing.", "body_md": "[Qwen 3.8 Flash](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/qwen3.8-flash) from Alibaba is now available on AI Gateway. It takes text and images as input, serves a context window of 1 million tokens, and can return up to 65k tokens in a response. Alibaba recommends it for coding, tool use, and multi-step agent workflows.\n\nTo use Qwen3.8-Flash, set `model`\n\nto `alibaba/qwen3.8-flash`\n\nin the [AI SDK](https://ai-sdk.dev/):\n\nTo use it in a coding agent, see the [coding agents guide](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents), then run `vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup`\n\nto connect agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Pi, and more and select `alibaba/qwen3.8-flash`\n\ninside the agent.\n\nTry Qwen3.8-Flash in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/qwen3.8-flash).\n\nAI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in [custom reporting](https://vercel.com/changelog/custom-reporting-ai-gateway), [Zero Data Retention support](https://vercel.com/blog/zdr-on-ai-gateway), [budgets for API keys](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/api-keys), [routing rules](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers/routing-rules), and more.\n\nAI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on [Bring Your Own Key](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/byok) (BYOK) requests.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/qwen-3-8-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "published_at": "2026-08-26 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 17:15:53.896119+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen 3.8 Flash", "Vercel", "AI Gateway", "AI SDK", "Claude Code", "Codex", "OpenCode"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway.jsonld"}}