Qwen AI Models
Alibaba's versatile multilingual AI with strong Chinese language capabilities.
6 active modelsAvailable Models
$1.20 / $6.00 per 1M
$0.40 / $2.40 per 1M
$0.10 / $0.40 per 1M
$0.65 / $3.25 per 1M
$0.30 / $1.50 per 1M
$0.07 / $0.30 per 1M
About Qwen Models
Usage patterns
Qwen's 6 active variants center on multimodal understanding — vision-capable models from $0.07 to $1.20/1M input. Pick by context size for document/image-heavy workloads; the cheapest tier handles classification, the flagship handles complex visual reasoning.
Pricing across the lineup
Input pricing varies 94% across the lineup ($0.07 → $1.20/1M). At 1M requests/month with ~1K input tokens, the cheapest variant costs roughly $0.07 while the flagship runs $1.20 — a 94% gap that compounds fast at scale. Output-token pricing follows the same tiering, so long-form generation amplifies the difference.
Provider notes
Qwen sits in the General Purpose category. Alibaba's versatile multilingual AI with strong Chinese language capabilities. The 1M maximum context window (on Qwen3.5-Plus) is the largest in this lineup — enough to ingest entire codebases or long documents in one call.
Where Qwen fits
Real-world fit: Qwen variants are commonly used for code-completion copilots, automated refactoring pipelines, and test generation at scale. The cheaper coding variants handle bulk linting/fixing; the flagship is reserved for architectural changes and complex bug fixes.