Qwen3.8-27B is Alibaba's open-weight 27B dense multimodal model, released under Apache-2.0 and self-hosted on OrcaRouter's own infrastructure. It accepts text, images, and video and returns text, with a 256K-token context window (262,144 positions) built on the Qwen3.5 architecture - 64 layers, 5120 hidden size, with a dedicated vision tower. Despite its 27B size it posts unusually strong agentic and coding results on Qwen's own model card, including 90.3 on LiveCodeBench v6, 89.2 on GPQA Diamond, 84.3 on OSWorld-Verified, and 79.0 on QwenSWEBench - competitive with far larger closed models on several axes. It supports native tool calling, structured outputs, reasoning mode, and the full sampling surface. Because the weights are open and we run them ourselves, there is no per-token vendor cost to pass through. That makes Qwen3.8-27B a strong default for high-volume multimodal work: document and screenshot understanding, video frames, coding agents, and computer-use style automation.
OpenAI-compatible — keep the SDK you already use
https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1",
api_key=os.environ["ORCAROUTER_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3.8-27b-free",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_p| Per request | $0 |
| Billing | Model usage is never charged to your balance |
| Over the limit | HTTP 429 when a limit is hit |
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GET /api/public/models/qwen/qwen3.8-27b-freeOpen @misc{orcarouter_qwen3_8_27b_free,
title = {Qwen3.8 27B (free) API},
author = {Qwen},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {OrcaRouter},
url = {https://www.orcarouter.ai/models/qwen/qwen3.8-27b-free}
}Qwen. (2026). Qwen3.8 27B (free) API. OrcaRouter. https://www.orcarouter.ai/models/qwen/qwen3.8-27b-free