Open-weight Qwen coding model for agents, repository edits, and multi-turn tool use
Qwen3 Coder Next by alibaba is offered by 19 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 17 of them. Its reference price is $0.581 per 1M input tokens and $2.32 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is DevPass (LLM Gateway) at $0.108 / $0.675 per 1M, about 5.4× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 2 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 9.2 on the Intelligence Index, with 36.2 for coding and 0.9 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.25 per 1M, that is roughly 37 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 100 tokens per second, with 1.54s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.5518, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 256,000 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-09.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Coding Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 65,536 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 65,536 | ||
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.11 | $0.68 | $0.06 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| LLM Gateway | Gateway | $0.11 | $0.68 | $0.06 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.12 | $0.80 | $0.07 | — | 262,144 | 235,929 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.80 | $0.075 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Cortecs | Gateway | $0.17 | $0.89 | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 256,000 | |
| Regolo AI | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 262,144 | 16,384 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.50 | $0.10 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| NovitaAI | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.50 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
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.
2 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Coding Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan (China)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.