Particle AI Particle-1 vs Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Particle-1 is 1.4× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 1M tokens.
- Particle-1 is the newer model (released 2026-10-28).
| Particle-1 | Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Particle AI | Qwen |
| Released | 2026-10-28 | 2026-09-21 |
| Input / 1M | $0.05 | $0.15 |
| Output / 1M | $0.50 | $0.47 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.0030 | $0.016 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.163 | $0.23 |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 131K | 131K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image, audio, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.50 | $0.47 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.86% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Particle-1
$10.50 per month$0.35 per day
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
$16.05 per month$0.54 per day
Particle-1 saves $5.55 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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