Qwen3.5 Flash: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3.5 Flash is a text model by Alibaba. 16 providers serve it, from $0.26 to $0.60 /1M; the lowest price is at OpenRouter.
A newer version is out: Qwen3.8 Flash · released Aug 26, 2026
How Qwen3.5 Flash compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.26 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 79% 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 #43 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 16 providers serve it; 85% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen3.5 Flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.065/1M | From$0.26/1M | — | 1M |
 AIHubMix | $0.028/1M | From$0.282/1M | $0.003/1M | 1M |
 AlibabaOfficial | $0.029/1M | From$0.287/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $0.029/1M | $0.287/1M | — | — |
 APIYI | $0.03/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $0.03/1M | $0.30/1M | — | — |
 EmpirioLabs AI | $0.09/1M | $0.368/1M | $0.09/1M | 1M |
 Poe | $0.091/1M | $0.372/1M | — | 1M |
| AlibabaOfficial | $0.10/1M | From$0.40/1M | — | — |
| ZenMux | $0.10/1M | $0.40/1M | $0.01/1M | 1.02M |
 Ofox | $0.10/1M | $0.40/1M | $0.01/1M | 1M |
 OrcaRouter | $0.10/1M | $0.40/1M | — | 1.05M |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.10/1M | $0.40/1M | $0.01/1M | 1M |
| Atlas Cloud | $0.10/1M | $0.40/1M | — | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.10/1M | $0.40/1M | — | — |
 Prime Inference | $0.15/1M | $0.60/1M | — | — |
- OpenRouterFrom$0.26
- AIHubMixFrom$0.282
- CrazyRouter$0.287
- AlibabaOfficialFrom$0.287
- APIYI$0.30
- LaoZhang API$0.30
- EmpirioLabs AI$0.368
- Poe$0.372
- ZenMux$0.40
- Ofox$0.40
- OrcaRouter$0.40
- Vercel AI Gateway$0.40
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1M≈ 1500 pages of text
- Max output
- 66K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Feb 24, 2026
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
- Arena score
- 1397Text
Alternatives to Qwen3.5 Flash
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5 Flashthis model | $0.26/1M | 1M | 1397 | 16 |
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| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
 MiMo-V2.6-Pro | $0.696/1M | 1.05M | 1625 | 21 |
 DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.17/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.294/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.418/1M | 1.05M | — | 33 |
 Ling 3.1 Flash | $0.225/1M | 262K | — | 5 |
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Alibaba charges $0.287 /1M for Qwen3.5 Flash. The lowest price across providers is $0.26 /1M, at OpenRouter.
OpenRouter, at $0.26 /1M. 16 providers serve Qwen3.5 Flash; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3.5 Flash reads up to 1M tokens per request and writes up to 66K.
No. Qwen3.5 Flash is only available through an API; Alibaba does not publish its weights.
16 API providers serve Qwen3.5 Flash. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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