RETIRED OCT 10 2026OPEN MOE131K CONTEXTTHINKING MODEAPACHE 2.0
Qwen3 235B A22B API Pricing
Retired October 10, 2026: Alibaba took qwen3-235b-a22b offline on that date, and calls to it now fail; the model is gone from Alibaba's pricing page. Alibaba recommends Qwen3.7 Plus instead. Qwen3 235B A22B is Alibaba's open-weight frontier MoE with 235B total parameters and 22B active per token. Baseline International/Singapore rates are $0.7/M input and $2.8/M output. Checked by hand against alibabacloud.com.
Input - per 1M tokens
$0.70/M
Source Alibaba Cloud flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$2.80/M
Context 131K flat
Cache N/A
$0.70/M
Cache not listed not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.868/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Qwen3 235B A22B API cost calculator.
Live calculator pre-loaded with current Qwen3 235B A22B rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.
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§ 02 / SCENARIOS
Qwen3 235B A22B cost on real workloads.
REASONING
Math solution
$0.015/problem
RAG
Policy analysis
$0.052/query
AGENT
Research branch
$0.077/task
CHATBOT
Expert answer
$0.00532/turn
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 432
Words 68
Tokens (estimated) 83 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00006 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00023 USD
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 235B A22B Current | $0.70 | $2.80 | $0.868 agentic 92/8 | 131K | Open MoE reasoning baseline |
| Qwen3 Max | $1.20 | $6.00 | $1.58 retired | 252K | Frontier Qwen proprietary reasoning |
| Qwen 3.5 Plus | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.56 −35% | 1M | General Qwen production workloads |
| Qwen 3.5 Flash | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.124 −7.0× | 1M | Cheap long-context Qwen traffic |
| Qwen3 Coder Plus | $1.00 | $5.00 | $1.32 retired | 1M | Agentic coding and code review |
| Qwen3 Coder Flash | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.396 −2.2× | 1M | High-volume coding assistants |
| QwQ Plus | $0.80 | $2.40 | $0.928 retired | 131K | Proprietary reasoning workloads |
| QwQ 32B | $0.287 | $0.861 | $0.333 deprecated · −2.6× | 131K | Open reasoning on a budget |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 −26% | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 −45% · promo | 1M | Low-latency multimodal RAG |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.006 | $1.20 | $0.15 −5.8× | 1M | Ultra-cheap API throughput |
Qwen3 235B A22B API pricing FAQ.
Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.
Q · 01 When did Qwen3 235B A22B stop working? +
Alibaba announced on June 8, 2026 that
qwen3-235b-a22b 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 Qwen3.7 Plus. The rates on this page are the last Alibaba published.Q · 02 What is Qwen3 235B A22B priced at? +
Qwen3 235B A22B is shown at
$0.7/M input and $2.8/M output on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's International/Singapore deployment section.Q · 03 Does this page include higher context pricing tiers? +
The quote tiles use the baseline tier for the queue. Alibaba publishes higher long-context tiers for some Qwen rows; for example Qwen3 Coder Plus rises above the 0-32K band, and Qwen3 235B A22B has a separate thinking-mode output price where applicable.
Q · 04 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
The Alibaba table separates Qwen3 235B A22B non-thinking and thinking-mode output. This page uses the baseline non-thinking output price
$2.80/M; thinking-mode CoT plus response is listed separately at $8.40/M.Q · 05 How is the effective price calculated? +
AI//COST uses the same 92/8 agentic blend everywhere. With no exact cache-read dollar price published for this row, Qwen3 235B A22B's effective blended cost is
$0.87/M.Q · 06 Is there a free quota or batch discount? +
Alibaba lists a 90-day activation free quota for many International Qwen rows, but not every open-source row includes one. Batch and context-cache support are model-specific; this page only publishes prices that are explicit in the vendor table.
Q · 07 Are regional prices different? +
Yes. Alibaba Cloud publishes separate International, Global, China (Hong Kong), EU, US, and Chinese Mainland deployment sections. AI//COST uses the International/Singapore baseline for Alibaba queue pages unless the page says otherwise.