Provider pricing
Qwen AI API pricing
Qwen is Alibaba's open-weight model family and one of the strongest non-Western LLM lineups. The Qwen 3 series spans from Qwen3 Max — a frontier-class flagship at $1.60/M input — down to Qwen3 Flash at $0.05/M, with a dedicated Qwen3 Coder model that ranks among the best for software engineering tasks. All models support large context windows and are available via Alibaba Cloud as well as multiple inference providers.
Founded2023 (Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud)
HeadquartersHangzhou, China
Tracked models11
Best for
Teams that want frontier-grade open-weight models, strong coding performance, or low-cost APIs with large context.
Strengths
- Strongest open-weight family — competitive with GPT-5 and Claude on many benchmarks
- Qwen3 Coder excels at agentic coding and long-horizon tool use
- Up to 1M context window across the lineup
- Aggressive pricing: Qwen3 Flash at $0.05/M input rivals the cheapest options
Tracked Qwen models
| Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Tier | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 Max | $1.60 | $6.40 | 1,000,000 | Flagship | Frontier reasoning, agentic coding, long context |
| Qwen3 Coder | $1.00 | $5.00 | 1,000,000 | Flagship | Best-in-class open-weight coding and tool use |
| Qwen3 Plus | $0.400 | $1.20 | 256,000 | Mid-tier | Balanced quality and price for production apps |
| Qwen3 Flash | $0.050 | $0.400 | 128,000 | Budget | Ultra-cheap classification, chat, and high-volume tasks |
| Qwen3 Turbo | $0.050 | $0.200 | 131,072 | Budget | High-throughput cost-efficient inference |
| QwQ 32B | $0.150 | $0.600 | 131,072 | Reasoning | Open-weight reasoning model with extended chain-of-thought |
| Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct | $0.350 | $0.400 | 131,072 | Open Source | Open-weight 72B instruct — strong multilingual reasoning |
| Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct | $0.200 | $0.200 | 131,072 | Open Source | Mid-size Qwen 2.5 for production agents |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B | $0.180 | $0.180 | 131,072 | Open Source | Code-specialized 32B for completion and refactoring |
| Qwen3 Vision | $0.500 | $1.50 | 256,000 | Flagship | Vision-language Qwen3 for charts, OCR, and UI understanding |
| Qwen3.5 Max | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1,000,000 | Premium | Next-gen Qwen flagship — frontier reasoning and agentic coding |