How much does Qwen Turbo cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen Turbo costs about $45.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.05 per 1M input tokens, $0.20 per 1M output tokens).

Does Qwen Turbo support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Qwen Turbo.

How long is Qwen Turbo's context window?

Qwen Turbo accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 16,384 tokens per response.

Qwen Turbo API Pricing

Alibaba · released Nov 1, 2024 · 1M context · API model ID qwen-turbo

Qwen Turbo by Alibaba API pricing: $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.20 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Qwen Turbo prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.05
Output	$0.20
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published
Reasoning output	$0.50

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

$45.00

per month

per day: $1.50
per request: $0.00015

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.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$45.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$75.00/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$87.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 16,384 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.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Qwen Turbo cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen Turbo costs about $45.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.05 per 1M input tokens, $0.20 per 1M output tokens).
Does Qwen Turbo support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Qwen Turbo.
How long is Qwen Turbo's context window?: Qwen Turbo accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 16,384 tokens per response.