Qwen
Qwen3.8 Flash Next Instant
A low-cost preview of the Qwen4 architecture, for high-volume apps, tool-driven workflows and coding assistants. Answers without a reasoning phase.
- Context window
- 256K tokens
- Accepts
- Text and images
- Input per 1M tokens
- $0.20
- Output per 1M tokens
- $0.50
Send your first request
Set LYCEUM_API_KEY to your API key, then run this request. Usage is billed to your account.
- Base URL
https://api.lyceum.technology/openai/v1- Model ID
qwen/qwen3.8-flash-next-instant- Request fields
model, messages, stream, max_tokens, tools, tool_choice
Documented request fields for this endpoint. See the documentation for model-specific controls and limits.
app.py · Install openai and set LYCEUM_API_KEY
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["LYCEUM_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://api.lyceum.technology/openai/v1",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3.8-flash-next-instant",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)app.ts · Install openai and set LYCEUM_API_KEY in Node.js
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.LYCEUM_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.lyceum.technology/openai/v1",
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "qwen/qwen3.8-flash-next-instant",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0]?.message.content);Terminal · Set LYCEUM_API_KEY in your terminal
curl https://api.lyceum.technology/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LYCEUM_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3.8-flash-next-instant",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
]
}'What it costs
You pay only for the tokens you use.
Token pricing
| USD per million tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 |
| Cached input | $0.05 |
| Output | $0.50 |
No base fee. Caching applies only where listed. Check the model's processing region before sending data.
The model in detail
Checked against the sources below. Anything they don't state is left out.
Capabilities
- Input and output
- Text and images in, text out
- Context window
- 256K tokens
- Reasoning
- Disabled
- Tool calling
- Supported
Architecture and licence
- Total parameters
- 125B, plus 51B of n-gram embeddings and 4B for multi-token prediction
- Active parameters
- 6B
- Architecture
- Mixture of experts
- Licence
- Qwen Community License 1.0
- Released
- 26 August 2026
Availability
- API model ID
qwen/qwen3.8-flash-next-instant- Provider
- Qwen
- Processing region
- EU-hosted
- Input and output types: official model card, checked 10 September 2026.
- Capabilities and request fields: Lyceum API documentation, checked 9 September 2026.
- Parameters, licence and release date: Qwen’s own sources, including its model card and announcement, checked 29 September 2026.
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