Qwen3 Coder Plus
by Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen/qwen3-coder-plus · #202 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Qwen3 Coder Plus is Alibaba's proprietary version of the Open Source Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and...
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Pricing
Input
$0.65
per 1M tokens
Output
$3.25
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$1.30
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.13
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
$0.813
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Qwen3 Coder Plus with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $1.30 | $0.0696 | — |
| 50% | $1.10 | $0.0436 | −37% |
| 90% | $0.949 | $0.0227 | −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 | $0.0013 | $1.30 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.00845 | $8.45 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.026 | $26.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.1138 | $113.75 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
66K
tokens
Input modalities
text
Tokenizer
Qwen3