RETIRING OCT 10 2026REASONING MODEL131K CONTEXTSINGAPORE BASELINEQWQ FAMILY
QwQ Plus API Pricing
Retiring October 10, 2026: Alibaba has announced that qwq-plus goes offline on that date, after which calls fail. Alibaba's notice points to the Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.7 series instead. QwQ Plus is Alibaba's proprietary QwQ reasoning model for math-style and deliberate answers. Baseline International/Singapore rates are $0.8/M input and $2.4/M output. Checked by hand against alibabacloud.com.
Input - per 1M tokens
$0.80/M
Source Alibaba Cloud flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$2.40/M
Context 131K flat
Cache N/A
$0.80/M
Cache not listed not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.928/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Run the numbers.
Live calculator pre-loaded with current QwQ Plus rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.
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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.
REASONING
Math solution
$0.016/problem
RAG
Policy analysis
$0.057/query
AGENT
Research branch
$0.084/task
CHATBOT
Expert answer
$0.00536/turn
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 418
Words 64
Tokens (estimated) 80 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00006 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00019 USD
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QwQ Plus Current | $0.80 | $2.40 | $0.928 agentic 92/8 | 131K | Proprietary reasoning workloads |
| Qwen3 Max | $1.20 | $6.00 | $1.58 deprecated · +71% | 252K | Frontier Qwen proprietary reasoning |
| Qwen 3.5 Plus | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.56 −40% | 256K | General Qwen production workloads |
| Qwen 3.5 Flash | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.124 −7.5× | 1M | Cheap long-context Qwen traffic |
| Qwen3 Coder Plus | $1.00 | $5.00 | $1.32 deprecated · +42% | 1M | Agentic coding and code review |
| Qwen3 Coder Flash | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.396 −2.3× | 1M | High-volume coding assistants |
| QwQ 32B | $0.287 | $0.861 | $0.333 deprecated · −2.8× | 131K | Open reasoning on a budget |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.70 | $2.80 | $0.868 deprecated · −6% | 131K | Open MoE reasoning baseline |
| GPT-5.4 mini | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $4.50 | $0.541 −42% | 400K | Coding and computer-use workloads |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 −48% · promo | 1M | Low-latency multimodal RAG |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.006 | $1.20 | $0.15 −6.2× | 1M | Ultra-cheap API throughput |
Frequently asked.
Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.
Q · 01 When does QwQ Plus stop working? +
Alibaba announced on April 13, 2026 that
qwq-plus goes offline on October 10, 2026 (00:00, UTC+8) in the Beijing and Singapore regions; after that, calls fail. Its notice recommends moving to the Qwen3.6 or Qwen3.7 series. Until then the model bills at the rates on this page.Q · 02 What is QwQ Plus priced at? +
QwQ Plus is shown at
$0.8/M input and $2.4/M output on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's International/Singapore deployment section.Q · 03 Does this page include higher context pricing tiers? +
The quote tiles use the baseline tier for the queue. Alibaba publishes higher long-context tiers for some Qwen rows; for example Qwen3 Coder Plus rises above the 0-32K band, and Qwen3 235B A22B has a separate thinking-mode output price where applicable.
Q · 04 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
No separate prompt-cache price is published for QwQ Plus on the Alibaba pricing table. The calculator uses
$0.80/M for fresh and cached input so the effective price stays traceable to the vendor row.Q · 05 How is the effective price calculated? +
AI//COST uses the same 92/8 agentic blend everywhere. With no exact cache-read dollar price published for this row, QwQ Plus's effective blended cost is
$0.93/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 not every open-source row includes one. Batch and context-cache support are model-specific; this page only publishes prices that are explicit in the vendor table.
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 the page says otherwise.