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Qwen3.8 Max vs Seedance 2.5

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Qwen3.8 Max
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
Seedance 2.5
bytedance/seedance-2.5
Provider
Alibaba
ByteDance
Family
Qwen
Modality
text
video
Context window
1,000,000 tok
Max output
4,096 tok
Released
2026-08-03
2026-08-07
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
$2.00 /1M
Output price
$6.00 /1M
Per output second
$0.231 /sec
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Qwen3.8 Max
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship built for professional-grade coding and long-horizon autonomous work, capable of delivering complete, production-grade projects spanning 10+ days across legal, financial, design, and other specialized domains. Native visual understanding of images and extended video runs through the full plan-execute-verify cycle, served via DashScope's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Seedance 2.5
bytedance/seedance-2.5
Full spec →

ByteDance's next-generation video model with a unified multimodal reference-to-video architecture. Generates video from text, up to 30 reference images, 10 reference videos, and 10 reference audio clips — including audio-only input with no image or video required. Supports first/last-frame image-to-video, video editing, video extension, intelligent duration (including automatic selection), and adaptive aspect ratio.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Use cases
PromosDemosStoryboards

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Qwen3.8 Max
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3.8-max",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Seedance 2.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance/seedance-2.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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