Use Alibaba web search with Qwen3.8-Max

by AlibabaWeb search

Qwen3.8-Max has its own web search on 1 of its 5 routes, and auto uses it. On every other route and endpoint Opper's engine runs the search.

UseAlibaba web searchwithin

Add Alibaba web search to Qwen3.8-Max

Set up with agents

Paste this into your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more) and it will set up and build with Opper for you.

Get your API key

In your code

1curl https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat/chat/completions \
2  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPPER_API_KEY" \
3  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
4  -d '{"model": "alibaba:global/qwen3.8-max",
5       "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What changed in the news today?"}],
6       "tools": [{"type": "opper:web_search"}]}'

Where you can run it

Qwen3.8-Max runs Alibaba web search on the routes below.

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Input	Output	Cache read
Alibaba Cloud	Multi		No	$1.65	$4.95	$0.25

The model

Qwen3.8-Max

by Alibaba

Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba's 2.4T-parameter MoE flagship with hybrid thinking, vision input, and a context window approaching one million tokens.

Available on

Alibaba CloudDeepInfraUSDigitalOceanUSFireworksNovitaUS

Pricing from$1.65/ 1M input$4.95/ 1M output$0.20/ 1M cache read1Mcontext

Privacy

ZDR
Training: No
Region: Multi, US

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