Qwen Plus: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen Plus is a text model by Alibaba. 13 providers serve it, from $0.23 to $1.20 /1M; the lowest price is at CrazyRouter.
How Qwen Plus compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.23 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 81% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 1M-token context window is larger than 67% of them (median 262K), about 1500 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #75 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 13 providers serve it; 82% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen Plus prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fal | — | $0.03/MP | — | — |
| MMuAPI | — | $0.03/run | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $0.06/1M | $0.23/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $0.114/1M | $0.286/1M | — | — |
 AlibabaOfficial | $0.115/1M | From$0.287/1M | — | — |
 Ofox | $0.12/1M | $0.29/1M | $0.023/1M | 1M |
| OpenRouter | $0.26/1M | From$0.78/1M | $0.052/1M | 1M |
 AIHubMix | $0.113/1M | From$1.13/1M | $0.023/1M | — |
| AlibabaOfficial | $0.40/1M | From$1.20/1M | — | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.40/1M | $1.20/1M | $0.08/1M | — |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.40/1M | From$1.20/1M | $0.08/1M | — |
 APIYI | $0.40/1M | $1.20/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $0.40/1M | From$1.20/1M | $0.40/1M | 131K |
- CrazyRouter$0.23
- LaoZhang API$0.286
- AlibabaOfficialFrom$0.287
- Ofox$0.29
- OpenRouterFrom$0.78
- AIHubMixFrom$1.13
- AI/ML API$1.20
- APIYI$1.20
- AlibabaOfficialFrom$1.20
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$1.20
- RequestyFrom$1.20
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1M≈ 1500 pages of text
- Max output
- 33K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling
- Released
- Feb 1, 2025
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
- Arena score
- 1326Text
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Alibaba charges $0.287 /1M for Qwen Plus. The lowest price across providers is $0.23 /1M, at CrazyRouter.
CrazyRouter, at $0.23 /1M. 13 providers serve Qwen Plus; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen Plus reads up to 1M tokens per request and writes up to 33K.
No. Qwen Plus is only available through an API; Alibaba does not publish its weights.
13 API providers serve Qwen Plus. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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