LEGACY QWEN1M CONTEXTTEXTQWEN 3.5 PLUS REPLACEMENT
Qwen Plus API Pricing
Qwen Plus is the legacy balanced Qwen row for text workloads. Alibaba lists the International/Singapore baseline at $0.4/M input and $1.2/M output; thinking output is separately listed at $4/M. Checked by hand against alibabacloud.com.
Input - per 1M tokens
$0.40/M
Source Alibaba Cloud flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$1.20/M
Context 1M flat
Cache N/A
$0.40/M
Cache no dollar row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.464/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Qwen Plus API cost calculator.
Live calculator pre-loaded with current Qwen Plus rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.
$ /mo
Workload split
Tokens you can process
—
Words equivalent (English)
—
Effective rate
—
§ 02 / SCENARIOS
Qwen Plus cost on real workloads.
LEGACY CHAT
Support assistant
$0.00172/turn
RAG
Knowledge base answer
$0.0048/query
LONG CONTEXT
Policy review
$0.050/doc
MIGRATION
A/B comparison
$0.00384/test
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type
Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.
Characters 401
Words 62
Tokens (estimated) 77 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00003 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00009 USD
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen Plus (2.5) Current | $0.40 | $1.20 | $0.464 agentic 92/8 | 1M | Legacy balanced Qwen apps |
| Qwen 3.5 Plus | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.56 +21% | 1M | Current Qwen production default |
| Qwen 3.5 Flash | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.124 −3.7× | 1M | Cheap long-context Qwen traffic |
| Qwen Max (2.5) | $1.60 | $6.40 | $1.98 legacy · +4.3× | 32K | Legacy Qwen 2.5 compatibility |
| Qwen Flash (2.5) | $0.05 | $0.40 | $0.078 legacy · −5.9× | 1M | Legacy cheap long-context apps |
| Qwen Turbo | $0.05 | $0.20 | $0.062 retired | 1M | Deprecated Turbo compatibility |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 +39% | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 +4% · promo | 1M | Google long-context Flash workloads |
Qwen Plus API pricing FAQ.
Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.
Q · 01 What is Qwen Plus priced at? +
Qwen Plus is listed at
$0.4/M input and $1.2/M output in Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's International/Singapore deployment section. The page stores USD per-million-token pricing.Q · 02 What replaced Qwen Plus? +
Qwen 3.5 Plus is the newer Alibaba row to compare first for new projects. Qwen Plus remains listed for compatibility, but new traffic should usually benchmark the replacement before staying on the legacy SKU.
Q · 03 Does this page use International or Global pricing? +
This page uses Alibaba Cloud Model Studio International deployment pricing, where endpoint and data storage are in Singapore and inference resources are dynamically scheduled globally excluding Chinese Mainland. Global, US, EU, China (Hong Kong), and Chinese Mainland sections can list different prices.
Q · 04 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
Alibaba marks context-cache support on some Qwen rows, but this row does not publish a concrete cache-read dollar price in the pricing table. The calculator therefore treats cached input as the same
$0.4/M baseline instead of inventing a discount.Q · 05 How is the effective price calculated? +
AI//COST uses the same 92/8 agentic blend everywhere. With no separate cache-read price published for this row, Qwen Plus's effective blended cost is
$0.46/M.Q · 06 Is there a Batch Invocation discount? +
Alibaba documents Batch Invocation as 50% off real-time input and output tokens for supported Qwen rows. The quote tiles show real-time list pricing; batch economics should be treated as a separate calculator variant.
Q · 07 Does Alibaba include a free quota? +
Many International Model Studio rows include a 1 million token free quota that is valid for 90 days after activating Model Studio. Free-quota eligibility is deployment- and model-specific, so production estimates should use the paid list prices shown here.