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Qwen Plus

alibaba·alibaba/qwen-plus·GA·Closed·qwen series

Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use

At a glance
Official price$0.115 / $0.287 per 1M
Cache read · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.115 / $0.287
Alibaba (China) First-party · 3.5× spread
Context1,000,000
⚠ Providers report 131,072–1,000,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit32,768
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured outputTemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-04
Released / updated2024-01-25 / 2025-09-11

Quality & performance

Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.

Available at 10 providers10 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
Alibaba (China)OfficialFirst-party$0.115$0.2871,000,00032,768
Merge GatewayGateway$0.115$0.287$0.0231,000,000250,000
OfoxGateway$0.12$0.29$0.0231,000,00032,768
OpenRouterGateway$0.26
tiered >256K: $0.78
$0.78$0.052$0.3251,000,00032,768
302.AIGateway$0.12$1.201,000,00032,768
Kilo GatewayGateway$0.26$0.78$0.052$0.3251,000,00032,768
NanoGPTGateway$0.40$1.20$0.20995,90432,768
LLMTRGateway$0.40$1.201,000,00032,768
AlibabaOfficialFirst-party$0.40$1.201,000,00032,768
DevPass (LLM Gateway)Gateway$0.40$1.20$0.08$0.50131,07232,768

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Your usage cost

1Merge Gateway$26.31
2Ofox$26.86
3Alibaba (China) · Official$37.35
4OpenRouter$66.04
5Kilo Gateway$66.04
6302.AI$84.00
Switch to Merge Gateway to save $11.04/mo (30%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Benchmark

No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.

Reasoning control

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1 / 10 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$1.20$02026-08-052026-08-132026-08-05 · Input list $0.402026-08-06 · Input list $0.402026-08-07 · Input list $0.402026-08-08 · Input list $0.402026-08-09 · Input list $0.402026-08-10 · Input list $0.402026-08-11 · Input list $0.402026-08-12 · Input list $0.402026-08-13 · Input list $0.1152026-08-05 · Output list $1.202026-08-06 · Output list $1.202026-08-07 · Output list $1.202026-08-08 · Output list $1.202026-08-09 · Output list $1.202026-08-10 · Output list $1.202026-08-11 · Output list $1.202026-08-12 · Output list $1.202026-08-13 · Output list $0.2872026-08-05 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-06 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-07 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-08 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-09 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-10 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-11 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-12 · Min blended $0.1582026-08-13 · Min blended $0.158