Qwen3 Coder Flash
by Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen/qwen3-coder-flash · #100 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Qwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling...
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Pricing
Input
$0.195
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.975
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.39
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.039
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
$0.244
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Qwen3 Coder Flash with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.39 | $0.0209 | — |
| 50% | $0.332 | $0.0131 | −37% |
| 90% | $0.285 | $0.006825 | −67% |
*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
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.00039 | $0.39 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.002535 | $2.54 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0078 | $7.80 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.0341 | $34.12 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
66K
tokens
Input modalities
text
Tokenizer
Qwen3