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Qwen3 14B

by Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen/qwen3-14b · #46 cheapest of 325 paid models

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Qwen3-14B is a dense 14.8B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both complex reasoning and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for...

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Pricing

Input

$0.12

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.24

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.15

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Qwen3 14B (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.15$0.0125
50%$0.15$0.0125−0%
90%$0.15$0.0125−0%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.000132$0.132
Document summary8,0001,000$0.0012$1.20
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.00408$4.08
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.0192$19.20

Performance

Intelligence Index

10.4

AA composite quality

Coding Index

13.8

Math Index

Agentic Index

1.8

Output speed

median

Time to first token

median

Time to first answer

after reasoning tokens

Specs

Context window

131K

tokens

Max output

16K

tokens

Input modalities

text

Tokenizer

Qwen3