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Qwen Turbo API Pricing

Retired October 10, 2026: Alibaba took qwen-turbo offline on that date, and calls to it now fail; the model is gone from Alibaba's pricing page. Alibaba's notice points to the Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.7 series instead. Qwen Turbo is the deprecated Turbo text row that Alibaba says will no longer be updated. Alibaba lists the International/Singapore baseline at $0.05/M input and $0.2/M output; thinking output is separately listed at $0.50/M. Checked by hand against alibabacloud.com.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.05/M
Source Alibaba Cloud flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$0.20/M
Context 1M flat
Cache N/A
$0.05/M
Cache no dollar row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.062/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Qwen Turbo API cost calculator.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current Qwen Turbo rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Qwen Turbo cost on real workloads.

DEPRECATED

Older app turn

$0.00024/turn
2,500 in - 600 out~408,163 units/$100
INTENT

Routing classification

$0.00026/batch
4,000 in - 300 out~384,615 units/$100
RAG

Low-latency answer

$0.00061/query
9,000 in - 800 out~163,934 units/$100
MIGRATION

Flash parity test

$0.0005/test
6,000 in - 1,000 out~200,000 units/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

Qwen Turbo token counter and cost.

What's a token →
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 429
Words 67
Tokens (estimated) 82 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.000004 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00002 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Qwen Turbo vs similar models.

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Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Qwen Turbo Current $0.05 $0.20 $0.062 agentic 92/8 1M Deprecated Turbo compatibility
Qwen 3.5 Plus $0.40 $2.40 $0.56 +9.0× 1M Current Qwen production default
Qwen 3.5 Flash $0.10 $0.40 $0.124 +2.0× 1M Cheap long-context Qwen traffic
Qwen Max (2.5) $1.60 $6.40 $1.98 legacy · +32× 32K Legacy Qwen 2.5 compatibility
Qwen Plus (2.5) $0.40 $1.20 $0.464 legacy · +7.5× 1M Legacy balanced Qwen apps
Qwen Flash (2.5) $0.05 $0.40 $0.078 legacy · +26% 1M Legacy cheap long-context apps
GPT-6.1 Terra $1.00 cache $0.05 $5.00 $0.645 +10× 1.05M OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier
Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75 cache $0.075 $3.75 $0.481 +7.8× · promo 1M Google long-context Flash workloads

Qwen Turbo API pricing FAQ.

Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.

Q · 01 When did Qwen Turbo stop working? +
Alibaba announced on April 13, 2026 that qwen-turbo would go offline on October 10, 2026 (00:00, UTC+8) in the Beijing and Singapore regions, and it has: on October 21, 2026 the model is no longer on Alibaba's pricing page, and calls to it fail. Its notice recommends moving to the Qwen3.6 or Qwen3.7 series. The rates on this page are the last Alibaba published.
Q · 02 What is Qwen Turbo priced at? +
Qwen Turbo is listed at $0.05/M input and $0.2/M output in Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's International/Singapore deployment section. The page stores USD per-million-token pricing.
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 $0.05/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 Turbo's effective blended cost is $0.06/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.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder · AI//COST · Prices checked by hand against alibabacloud.com · Last verified Oct 21, 2026
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