OPEN MOE397B TOTAL17B ACTIVE256K CONTEXT
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B API Pricing
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B is Alibaba's open-weight Qwen 3.5 flagship MoE. Baseline International/Singapore rates are $0.60/M input and $3.60/M output for both non-thinking and thinking output. Checked by hand against alibabacloud.com.
Input - per 1M tokens
$0.60/M
Source Alibaba Cloud flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$3.60/M
Context 256K flat
Cache N/A
$0.60/M
Cache no dollar row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.84/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B API cost calculator.
Live calculator pre-loaded with current Qwen 3.5 397B A17B rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.
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§ 02 / SCENARIOS
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B cost on real workloads.
REASONING
Strategy analysis
$0.025/brief
RAG
Long evidence query
$0.045/query
AGENT
Research branch
$0.067/task
CHATBOT
Expert answer
$0.00594/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 434
Words 69
Tokens (estimated) 83 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00005 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.0003 USD
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.5 397B A17B Current | $0.60 | $3.60 | $0.84 agentic 92/8 | 256K | Open MoE frontier workloads |
| Qwen3.8 Max | $2.00 | $6.00 | $2.32 +2.8× | 1M | Frontier Qwen proprietary reasoning |
| Qwen 3.5 Plus | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.56 −33% | 1M | General Qwen production workloads |
| Qwen 3.5 Flash | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.124 −6.8× | 1M | Cheap long-context Qwen traffic |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.496 −41% · promo | 1M | Mid-price Qwen reasoning |
| Qwen3.6 Flash | $0.25 cache $0.025 | $1.50 | $0.191 −4.4× | 1M | Low-cost Qwen chat and reasoning |
| Qwen 3.5 122B A10B | $0.40 | $3.20 | $0.624 −26% | 256K | Open MoE production chat |
| QwQ 32B | $0.287 | $0.861 | $0.333 deprecated · −2.5× | 131K | Open reasoning on a budget |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 −23% | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B API pricing FAQ.
Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.
Q · 01 What is Qwen 3.5 397B A17B priced at? +
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B is shown at
$0.6/M input and $3.6/M output in Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's International/Singapore deployment section.Q · 02 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 and Chinese Mainland sections can list different prices.
Q · 03 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
Alibaba marks context-cache support on some Qwen families, but this row does not publish a concrete cache-read dollar price. The calculator therefore treats cached input as the same
$0.6/M baseline instead of inventing a discount.Q · 04 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 3.5 397B A17B's effective blended cost is
$0.84/M.Q · 05 Is there a free quota or batch discount? +
Alibaba lists a 90-day activation free quota for many International Qwen rows, but quota eligibility is model-specific. Batch Invocation is 50% off where the vendor row explicitly marks Batch support; this page only publishes the real-time list prices in the quote tiles.
Q · 06 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 a page explicitly says otherwise.