Hosted Qwen coder for software agents, repo edits, and long-context code
Qwen3 Coder Plus by alibaba is offered by 16 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 13 of them. Its official list price is $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $5.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Merge Gateway at $0.574 / $2.29 per 1M, about 3.1× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel and 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.
The context window is 1,048,576 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 128,000 to 1,048,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-04.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iFlow | Gateway | Free | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | ||
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.574 | $2.29 | $0.115 | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 250,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.65 | $3.25 | $0.13 | $0.813 | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.65 tiered >32K: $1.17 · >128K: $1.95 | $3.25 | $0.13 | $0.813 | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.50 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $1.00 | $5.00 | — | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| LLMTR | Gateway | $1.00 | $5.00 | — | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $1.00 | $5.00 | — | — | 1,048,576 | 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.
3 more channels offer $0 (iFlow, Alibaba Coding Plan (China), Alibaba Coding Plan); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.