Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)

QwQ-Plus API Pricing

International pricing. Dedicated reasoning model.

Verified against Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)’s pricing page on 2026-07-02.

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Facts

Specs

  • FamilyQwQ
  • API IDqwq-plus
  • ModalityText
  • Context window
  • Max output
  • Release dateNot published

Pricing (per 1M tokens)

  • Input$0.80 / 1M tokens
  • Output$2.40 / 1M tokens
  • Cached input
  • Cache write
  • Batch discount

Capabilities

reasoning

Notes

International pricing. Dedicated reasoning model.

Worked cost examples

Estimated monthly cost on three common usage shapes

WorkloadEst. monthly cost

Chatbot

800 input / 200 output tokens per request, 100,000 requests/month

$112.00

RAG pipeline

6,000 input / 700 output tokens per request, 30,000 requests/month

$194.40

Batch summarization

20,000 input / 1,500 output tokens per request, 5,000 requests/month

$98.00

Price history

Changes we have documented since we began tracking

No price changes recorded since we began tracking.

QwQ-Plus pricing FAQ

How much does QwQ-Plus cost per 1M tokens?
QwQ-Plus costs $0.80 per 1M input tokens and $2.40 per 1M output tokens.
How much does QwQ-Plus cost per request?
A typical request of 800 input and 200 output tokens costs about $0.0011 on QwQ-Plus.
Is QwQ-Plus cheaper than Qwen-Flash?
QwQ-Plus is more expensive than Qwen-Flash on input tokens, by about 1500%.
Does QwQ-Plus have cache pricing?
No cache discount is documented for QwQ-Plus on the provider's pricing page.