Qwen-VL Plus API Pricing
Alibaba · released Jan 25, 2024 · 131K context · API model ID qwen-vl-plus
Qwen-VL Plus by Alibaba API pricing: $0.21 per 1M input tokens and $0.63 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).
Prices
| Price | USD per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.21 |
| Output | $0.63 |
| 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
$157.50
per month
- per day
- $5.25
- per request
- $0.000525
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 | $157.50/mo |
| RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day | $299.25/mo |
| Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input | $352.80/mo |
Context and capabilities
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- text
- Knowledge cutoff
- April 2024
- Open weights
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Reasoning
- No
- 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-VL Plus cost per month?
- For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen-VL Plus costs about $157.50 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.21 per 1M input tokens, $0.63 per 1M output tokens).
- Does Qwen-VL Plus support prompt caching?
- No cache read price is published for Qwen-VL Plus.
- How long is Qwen-VL Plus's context window?
- Qwen-VL Plus accepts up to 131,072 tokens (131K) of context and returns up to 8,192 tokens per response.