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Updated Sep 2026

Qwen3 CodervsQwen3.8 Omni Flash

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is cheaper than Qwen3 Coder at $0.15/M vs $0.22/M input tokens.

Qwen3 Coder and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash compared across 9 shared prompts
SpecQwen3 CoderQwen3.8 Omni Flash
Input price$0.22/M tokens$0.15/M tokens
Output price$0.95/M tokens$0.47/M tokens
Context window—1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJul 2025Sep 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 4 of the 9 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Qwen3 Coder183 words
Sunset Skillet Pasta A warm, comforting pasta dish with a hint of sweetness from sun-dried tomatoes Ingredients: Pasta (penne or spaghetti) - 1 cup Olive oil - 2 tablespoons Garlic - 3 cloves, minced Canned tomatoes - 1 can (14 oz) Sun-dried tomatoes - ¼ cup, chopped Parmesan cheese - ½ cup, grated Fresh basil - ¼ cup…
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash175 words
Buttery Cloud Pancakes A soft, golden pancake stack made with just 7 pantry staples—no special mix-ins, no fancy tools, just simple comfort. Ingredients All-purpose flour Granulated sugar Baking powder Fine salt Milk Egg Butter Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 12 minutes Serves 2–3 Instructions In a bowl, whisk together…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Qwen3 Coder581 words
30-Day Health & Longevity Starter Plan Week 1: Foundation Building Diet 🥗 Hydration first: Drink 8 glasses of water daily (start your day with 2 glasses) Add, don't subtract: Include one extra serving of vegetables at dinner Smart swaps: Replace one sugary drink with water or herbal tea Mindful eating: Eat one meal…
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash712 words
A Simple 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Goal: Build sustainable habits—not perfection—around diet, exercise, and recovery/sleep. Time commitment: Small daily actions plus 2–3 short workouts per week. The 3 Key Areas Diet: Add more good foods before restricting Beginner rule: Focus on adding, not removing.
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Qwen3 Coder359 words
Here are the 3 weakest claims in this pitch deck: "Reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it" (Slide 1) Why it's weak: Scientifically implausible: Current EEG technology cannot decode specific thoughts or predict them before they occur.
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash2,971 words
The three weakest claims—ranked by how likely they are to fail investor diligence—are: “94% accuracy… works with any language, any device.” “TAM: $180B” based on 3.5B smartphone users. “FDA clearance” consuming 40% of the Series A raise.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Qwen3 Coder627 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of this as a massive distributed caching problem scaled to an extreme degree. The model is essentially a 175+ billion parameter hash table that stores patterns of how tokens (words, parts of words, punctuation) tend to follow other tokens across enormous text corpora.
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Qwen3.8 Omni Flash913 words
For the experienced software engineer A large language model is best thought of as a gigantic, parameterized probabilistic function that maps a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.
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Our Verdict
Qwen3 Coder
Qwen3 Coder
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Qwen3 Coder
Input
$0.22
Output
$0.95
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Input
$0.15
1.5× cheaper
Output
$0.47
2.0× cheaper

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is cheaper on both: 1.5× input, 2.0× output.

Where to run it

6 hosts, cheapest first

Qwen3 Coder5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Google Vertex AI$0.22 in·$1.80 out·262k·100% upDDeepInfrafp4$0.30 in·$1.00 out·262k·98.3% upVVenicefp8$0.35 in·$1.50 out·256k·96.3% upNNovitafp8$0.38 in·$1.55 out·262k·82.7% upAlibaba Cloud$0.97 in·$4.88 out·262k·100% up
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Clouddegraded$0.15 in·$0.47 out·1M·99% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

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Both are developed by Qwen but target different use cases. You can compare their actual outputs across 9 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Qwen3 Coder and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 9 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Qwen3 Coder costs $0.22/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs $0.15/M input tokens. Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is $0.07/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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