Qwen Flash API Pricing
Alibaba · released Jul 28, 2025 · 1M context · API model ID qwen-flash
Qwen Flash by Alibaba API pricing: $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).
Prices
| Price | USD per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.05 |
| Output | $0.40 |
| Cache read | Not published |
| Cache write | Not published |
Alibaba's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation
Estimated monthly cost
$75.00
per month
- per day
- $2.50
- per request
- $0.00025
Cannot estimate: a needed price is not published.
Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.
Monthly cost by workload
| Workload | Per month |
|---|---|
| Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day | $75.00/mo |
| RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day | $90.00/mo |
| Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input | $99.00/mo |
Context and capabilities
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Knowledge cutoff
- April 2024
- Open weights
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Structured outputs
- No
Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.
Similarly priced models
- Claude Haiku 5.5 · $0.10 in / $0.50 out
- GPT-6 Luna · $0.10 in / $0.50 out
- Qwen3.8 Flash · $0.15 in / $0.47 out
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · $0.30 in / $1.20 out
Price history
No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.
Questions
- How much does Qwen Flash cost per month?
- For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen Flash costs about $75.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.05 per 1M input tokens, $0.40 per 1M output tokens).
- Does Qwen Flash support prompt caching?
- No cache read price is published for Qwen Flash.
- How long is Qwen Flash's context window?
- Qwen Flash accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 32,768 tokens per response.