Qwen3.8 27B vs Apertus 70B: API price and specs

Qwen3.8 27B is 91% cheaper than Apertus 70B on input price.

Qwen3.8 27B is 86% cheaper than Apertus 70B on output price.

Qwen3.8 27B is 88% cheaper than Apertus 70B on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Qwen3.8 27B has a 1625.9% larger context than Apertus 70B.

Field	Qwen3.8 27B	Apertus 70B
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.039	$0.45 +1046.6%
Median input, per 1M	$0.40	$0.82 +105%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.32	$2.23 +598.2%
Median output, per 1M	$2.50 +6.5%	$2.35
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.10	$0.89 +768%
Context	1.1M	66K +94.2%
Max output	500K	30K +94%
Providers	48	5 +89.6%
Regions	AU, CH, CZ, EU, GLOBAL, US	—
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, pdf, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/webm, video/x-flv, video/x-matroska, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo	text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	chutes	regolo-ai

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aki-io, cortecs, huggingface, regolo-ai, trustedrouter

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8 27B or Apertus 70B?

Qwen3.8 27B is 91% cheaper than Apertus 70B on input price. Qwen3.8 27B is 86% cheaper than Apertus 70B on output price. Qwen3.8 27B is 88% cheaper than Apertus 70B on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3.8 27B or Apertus 70B?

Qwen3.8 27B: 1.1M tokens; Apertus 70B: 66K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3.8 27B and Apertus 70B?

aki-io, cortecs, huggingface, regolo-ai, trustedrouter