r/singularity Frames Qwen3.8's $2/$6 Pricing as a Direct Shot at Anthropic — 497 Upvotes
r/singularity (497 upvotes / 44 comments)·medium signal
A post titled 'Qwen 3.8 morning to you too Dario, 2$ input/ 6$ output per 1M' drew 497 upvotes and 44 comments in r/singularity within hours of Alibaba's August 3 general-availability announcement. The pricing is confirmed on Alibaba Model Studio at $2.00/$6.00 per million tokens flat across the full 1M context. The community framing is the signal: with OpenAI having cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% to $0.20/$1.20 on July 30, practitioners are now reading each frontier release primarily through its price card rather than its benchmark table.