{"slug": "qwen-3-8-max-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway", "title": "Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway", "summary": "Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model handling text and vision tasks with a 1-million-token context window. The model, accessed via model ID alibaba/qwen3.8-max, is available in the Vercel model playground and coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi. AI Gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, cost management, and no markup on inference, including BYOK requests.", "body_md": "[Qwen 3.8 Max](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/qwen3.8-max) is now available on AI Gateway.\n\nQwen 3.8 Max handles text-only and vision-language work in one model, with 2.4 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. The model is suited for software engineering and office productivity, along with visual work like turning screenshots or design files into working pages, captioning video, and answering questions grounded in an image.\n\nTo use Qwen 3.8 Max, set `model`\n\nto `alibaba/qwen3.8-max`\n\n.\n\nTry Qwen 3.8 Max in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/qwen3.8-max).\n\nTo use it in a [coding agent](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents), run `vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup`\n\nto connect Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or Pi, then select `alibaba/qwen3.8-max`\n\ninside the agent.\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-max-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/qwen-3-8-max-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway", "published_at": "2026-08-02 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 03:08:33.514111+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Vercel", "AI Gateway", "Qwen 3.8 Max", "Alibaba", "Claude Code", "Codex", "OpenCode", "Pi"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-max-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-max-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-max-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-max-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway.jsonld"}}