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Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Jan 25, 2024

Qwen Plus

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

  • Proprietary
  • Reasoning
  • Tool calling
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
$0.40per 1M tokens
Output
$1.20per 1M tokens
Context
1M33K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
$0.40per million tokens
Output
$1.20per million tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.60cheaper than 56% of priced models

Typical monthly bills

Monthly usageEstimated cost
Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens$1.40
Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens$16.00
Production app250M input + 50M output tokens$160.00

Official Alibaba API price, as listed on models.dev.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen Plus yet.

Specifications

The details

Lab
Alibaba (Qwen)
Released
Jan 25, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2024
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
32,768 tokens
Inputs
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Thinking budget
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
Weights
Proprietary
API model ID
qwen-pluson Alibaba
Availability
9 API providerslisted on models.dev

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Questions

About Qwen Plus

How much does Qwen Plus cost?

Qwen Plus costs $0.40 input / $1.20 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.60 per million tokens, cheaper than 56% of the 360 priced models we track.

What is the context window of Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens per request and can write up to 32,768 tokens in one response.

How good is Qwen Plus?

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen Plus yet.

Is Qwen Plus open source?

No. Qwen Plus is proprietary; you use it through Alibaba’s API or partner platforms.

What inputs does Qwen Plus support?

Qwen Plus accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.

When was Qwen Plus released?

Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen Plus on Jan 25, 2024. Its training data runs to Apr 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Qwen Plus?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Sonar (Perplexity, $1.00 / $1.00), Codestral (Mistral AI, $0.30 / $0.90), Aya Expanse 32B (Cohere, $0.50 / $1.50) and Claude Haiku 3 (Anthropic, ECI 118.4, $0.25 / $1.25).