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Nova Premier 1.0 vs Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Nova Premier 1.0 costs 1.6× as much as Qwen3.8 Max (0902): $10.00 against $6.40 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Nova Premier 1.0Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Input, per 1M tokens$2.50$2.00
Output, per 1M tokens$12.50$6.00
Context window1M1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$1.63$1.26
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$10.00$6.40
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$26.25$19.00
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Qwen3.8 Max (0902) answers your requests as well as Nova Premier 1.0, moving that traffic saves 36% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Qwen3.8 Max (0902) exposes a confidence signal, so Gimbix can let it answer first and hand unsure cases to Nova Premier 1.0.

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