RETIRING OCT 10 2026OPEN 14B131K CONTEXTTHINKING MODEAPACHE 2.0
Qwen3 14B API Pricing
Retiring October 10, 2026: Alibaba has announced that qwen3-14b goes offline on that date, after which calls fail. Alibaba recommends Qwen3.6 Flash instead. Qwen3 14B is the smaller open-weight dense Qwen3 tier, but Alibaba prices the International/Singapore row at $0.35/M input and $1.40/M non-thinking output. Checked by hand against alibabacloud.com.
Input - per 1M tokens
$0.35/M
Source Alibaba Cloud flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$1.40/M
Context 131K flat
Cache N/A
$0.35/M
Cache no dollar row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.434/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Run the numbers.
Live calculator pre-loaded with current Qwen3 14B rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.
$ /mo
Workload split
Tokens you can process
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Words equivalent (English)
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Effective rate
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§ 02 / SCENARIOS
Real-world presets.
CHATBOT
Small-team assistant
$0.00178/turn
RAG
Knowledge answer
$0.0042/query
REASONING
Math solution
$0.0049/problem
CLASSIFY
Intent routing
$0.00063/item
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type
Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.
Characters 384
Words 60
Tokens (estimated) 73 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00003 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.0001 USD
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 14B Current | $0.35 | $1.40 | $0.434 agentic 92/8 | 131K | Compact open Qwen reasoning |
| Qwen3 Max | $1.20 | $6.00 | $1.58 deprecated · +3.6× | 252K | Frontier Qwen proprietary reasoning |
| Qwen 3.5 Plus | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.56 +29% | 256K | General Qwen production workloads |
| Qwen 3.5 Flash | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.124 −3.5× | 1M | Cheap long-context Qwen traffic |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.70 | $2.80 | $0.868 deprecated · +2.0× | 131K | Open MoE reasoning baseline |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.16 | $0.64 | $0.198 deprecated · −2.2× | 131K | Open 32B chat and reasoning |
| Qwen 3.5 397B A17B | $0.60 | $3.60 | $0.84 +94% | 256K | Open MoE frontier workloads |
| Qwen 3.5 122B A10B | $0.40 | $3.20 | $0.624 +44% | 256K | Open MoE production chat |
| QwQ 32B | $0.287 | $0.861 | $0.333 deprecated · −23% | 131K | Open reasoning on a budget |
| GPT-5.4 mini | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $4.50 | $0.541 +25% | 400K | Coding and computer-use workloads |
Frequently asked.
Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.
Q · 01 When does Qwen3 14B stop working? +
Alibaba announced on June 8, 2026 that
qwen3-14b goes offline on October 10, 2026 (00:00, UTC+8) in the Beijing and Singapore regions; after that, calls fail. Its notice recommends Qwen3.6 Flash. Until then the model bills at the rates on this page.Q · 02 What is Qwen3 14B priced at? +
Qwen3 14B is shown at
$0.35/M input and $1.4/M output in Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's International/Singapore deployment section.Q · 03 Does this page use International or Global pricing? +
This page uses Alibaba Cloud Model Studio International deployment pricing, where endpoint and data storage are in Singapore and inference resources are dynamically scheduled globally excluding Chinese Mainland. Global and Chinese Mainland sections can list different prices.
Q · 04 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
Alibaba marks context-cache support on some Qwen families, but this row does not publish a concrete cache-read dollar price. The calculator therefore treats cached input as the same
$0.35/M baseline instead of inventing a discount.Q · 05 How is the effective price calculated? +
AI//COST uses the same 92/8 agentic blend everywhere. With no separate cache-read price published for this row, Qwen3 14B's effective blended cost is
$0.43/M.Q · 06 Is there a free quota or batch discount? +
Alibaba lists a 90-day activation free quota for many International Qwen rows, but quota eligibility is model-specific. Batch Invocation is 50% off where the vendor row explicitly marks Batch support; this page only publishes the real-time list prices in the quote tiles.
Q · 07 Are regional prices different? +
Yes. Alibaba Cloud publishes separate International, Global, China (Hong Kong), EU, US, and Chinese Mainland deployment sections. AI//COST uses the International/Singapore baseline for Alibaba queue pages unless a page explicitly says otherwise.