specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Qwen
providerId: qwen
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: true
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Alibaba
- Plans
description: >-
  Pay-as-you-go per-token pricing across the Qwen model family on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
  (DashScope). Tiered by context-length window. Free open-weight self-hosting available for
  Qwen2.5/Qwen3 open variants.
notes: >-
  Pricing tiers are stratified by input context size (0-32K, 32-128K, 128-256K, 256K-1M).
  International pricing in USD; mainland-China pricing in CNY. Sample rates as of May 2026:
  Qwen3-Max input $1.2/M up to 32K and $3/M at 128-252K. Qwen3.5-Plus input $0.4/M up to 256K.
  Qwen3.5-Flash input $0.1/M up to 128K. Qwen3-VL-Plus input $0.2/M up to 32K.
sources:
- https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models
- https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/get-api-key
plans:
- id: qwen-pay-as-you-go-international
  name: DashScope Pay As You Go (International)
  type: usage
  description: International (Singapore/US/HK/Frankfurt) usage billing in USD.
  entries:
  - label: Qwen3-Max Input (0-32K)
    name: qwen3_max_input_32k
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '1.20 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen3-Max Output (0-32K)
    name: qwen3_max_output_32k
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '6.00 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen3.5-Plus Input (0-256K)
    name: qwen35_plus_input
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '0.40 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen3.5-Plus Output (0-256K)
    name: qwen35_plus_output
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '2.40 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen3.5-Flash Input (0-128K)
    name: qwen35_flash_input
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '0.10 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen3.5-Flash Output (0-128K)
    name: qwen35_flash_output
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '0.40 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen3-VL-Plus Input (0-32K)
    name: qwen3_vl_plus_input
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '0.20 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen3-VL-Flash Input (0-32K)
    name: qwen3_vl_flash_input
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: international
    unit: 1000000
    price: '0.05 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Qwen3-Max
  - name: Qwen3.5-Plus / Qwen3.5-Flash
  - name: Qwen3-VL-Plus / Qwen3-VL-Flash
  - name: Qwen3-Coder
  - name: Qwen-Audio (TTS/ASR)
- id: qwen-pay-as-you-go-china
  name: DashScope Pay As You Go (China Mainland)
  type: usage
  description: Mainland China (Beijing) usage billing in CNY (USD-equivalents shown).
  entries:
  - label: Qwen-Plus Input (0-128K)
    name: qwen_plus_cn_input
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: china
    unit: 1000000
    price: '~0.115 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen-Flash Input (0-128K)
    name: qwen_flash_cn_input
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: china
    unit: 1000000
    price: '~0.022 USD'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Qwen-VL-OCR
    name: qwen_vl_ocr_cn
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: china
    unit: 1000000
    price: '~0.043 USD input / 0.072 USD output'
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Qwen-Plus / Qwen-Flash
  - name: Qwen-VL-OCR
- id: qwen-self-hosted
  name: Self-Hosted (Open Weights)
  type: free
  description: Qwen2.5/Qwen3 open weights are available on Hugging Face/ModelScope under permissive licenses.
  entries:
  - label: Open Weights
    name: open_weights
    type: free
    metric: weights
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Qwen3-32B / Qwen3-14B / Qwen3-7B
  - name: Qwen2.5-72B / Qwen2.5-32B / Qwen2.5-Coder
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com