Qwen3.8-Max API in Russia — no VPN, no foreign card
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's flagship model for coding, office work and long-running autonomous tasks. Connect through RuAPI: pay in USDT from $5, no subscription, your key right after sign-up.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="sk-...",
base_url="https://www.ruapi.ai/v1",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.8-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Replace sk-... with a key from the RuAPI Console — the model qwen3.8-max is already set.
Qwen3.8-Max API price
Current price in US dollars — the same as on the pricing page. Pay in USDT, pay as you go, no subscription.
| model | input $ / 1M | output $ / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| qwen3.8-max | $2.16 cache read $0.43 | $6.456 |
Input is the regular price of input tokens, “cache read” is the price of input tokens served from the prompt cache, output is the price of output tokens. The price in your account may be lower.
What is Qwen3.8-Max
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's flagship, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model. Alibaba positions it for coding and office work, long-horizon autonomous tasks, and native visual understanding of long documents and videos.
It is a hybrid model with thinking on by default, and it supports tool calls and structured output. Through RuAPI it is available at the OpenAI-compatible base URL https://www.ruapi.ai/v1 with the same key as every other model, which makes it easy to compare with DeepSeek or Claude on your own tasks.
Qwen3.8-Max specs
| Developer | Alibaba Cloud |
| Model ID in the RuAPI API | qwen3.8-max |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Max input | 991,808 tokens |
| Max output | 131,072 tokens |
| Input | text, images, video |
| Output | text |
| Reasoning mode | yes |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Prompt caching | yes |
| Status | generally available |
| Protocols on RuAPI | OpenAI (/v1/chat/completions) |
Specs are from Alibaba Cloud’s official documentation (www.alibabacloud.com), checked Oct 22, 2026.
What it’s good for
- Coding and agentic work in Cline, Roo Code and OpenCode
- Office tasks: documents, reports, business correspondence
- Analysis of long documents, scans and images
- Long autonomous tasks with tool calls
When another model is a better fit
- DeepSeek V4 Pro — DeepSeek's Pro tier for agents and complex coding, if text input is enough.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro — Google's multimodal model: besides images and video it also understands audio and PDF.
Qwen3.8-Max: price on RuAPI and elsewhere
| RuAPI | AITUNNEL | |
|---|---|---|
| Input, $ per 1M tokens | $2.16 | ≈ $4.88 |
| Output, $ per 1M tokens | $6.456 | ≈ $14.64 |
AITUNNEL prices are from their public pages as of Oct 22, 2026, converted at the Bank of Russia rate (81.97 ₽ per $1). The RuAPI price is current.
How to connect Qwen3.8-Max from Russia
- Sign up at ruapi.ai — with email, Google or Yandex. No VPN needed.
- Top up with USDT or USDC from 5 USDT. No USDT yet? Buy it with rubles via SBP — step by step in the docs.
- In the Console, open API Keys → Create key.
- Use the address https://www.ruapi.ai/v1 and the model qwen3.8-max.
FAQ
See also: Documentation