Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Mar 5, 2025QwQ Plus
Qwen reasoning model for deliberate problem solving, math, and coding.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.80per 1M tokens
- Output
- $2.40per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K8K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.80per million tokens
- Output
- $2.40per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $1.20pricier than 59% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $2.80 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $32.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $320.00 |
Official Alibaba API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for QwQ Plus yet.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Alibaba (Qwen).
The details
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- Mar 5, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2024
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Always on
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
qwq-pluson Alibaba- Availability
- 2 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About QwQ Plus
How much does QwQ Plus cost?
QwQ Plus costs $0.80 input / $2.40 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $1.20 per million tokens, more expensive than 59% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of QwQ Plus?
QwQ Plus accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 8,192 tokens in one response.
How good is QwQ Plus?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for QwQ Plus yet. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 65.4%.
Is QwQ Plus open source?
No. QwQ Plus is proprietary; you use it through Alibaba’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does QwQ Plus support?
QwQ Plus accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was QwQ Plus released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released QwQ Plus on Mar 5, 2025. Its training data runs to Apr 2024.
What are the best alternatives to QwQ Plus?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GPT-4.1 mini (OpenAI, ECI 135.0, $0.40 / $1.60), Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (Meta, ECI 132.2, $0.321 / $0.91), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B (DeepSeek, ECI 137.4) and Mistral Medium 3 (Mistral AI, ECI 134.1, $0.40 / $2.00).