Alibaba Qwen · 2025-02-01
Qwen-Plus pricing
Qwen-Plus, based on the Qwen2.5 foundation model, is a 131K context model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What Qwen-Plus costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $21.06 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $304 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $86.11 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash | inclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | 262K | $1.70 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Mercury 2.5 | inception | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.004 | 260K | $3.60 |
| Laguna XS 2.1 free variant | poolside | $0.06 | $0.12 | $0.03 | 262K | $4.14 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other Qwen models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | $4 | $12 | $0.50 | 1M | $324 |
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.016 | 1M | $12.39 |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | $2 | $6 | $0.25 | 1M | $162 |
| Qwen3.8 Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.016 | 1M | $12.39 |
| Qwen3.8 27B | $0.039 | $1.25 | $0.0039 | 1M | $16.75 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $2 | $6 | $0.25 | 1.05M | $162 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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Qwen-Plus: questions
How much does Qwen-Plus cost?
$0.26 per 1M input tokens and $0.78 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.052. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0006.
What is Qwen-Plus’s context window?
1,000,000 tokens, with up to 32,768 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen-Plus?
Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.021 in and $0.063 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches Qwen-Plus’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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