How much does QwQ Plus cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, QwQ Plus costs about $600.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.80 per 1M input tokens, $2.40 per 1M output tokens).

Does QwQ Plus support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for QwQ Plus.

How long is QwQ Plus's context window?

QwQ Plus accepts up to 131,072 tokens (131K) of context and returns up to 8,192 tokens per response.

QwQ Plus API Pricing

Alibaba · released Mar 5, 2025 · 131K context · API model ID qwq-plus

QwQ Plus by Alibaba API pricing: $0.80 per 1M input tokens and $2.40 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

QwQ Plus prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.80
Output	$2.40
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

$600.00

per month

per day: $20.00
per request: $0.002

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	$600.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$1,140/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$1,344/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 131,072 tokens
Max output: 8,192 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 QwQ Plus cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, QwQ Plus costs about $600.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.80 per 1M input tokens, $2.40 per 1M output tokens).
Does QwQ Plus support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for QwQ Plus.
How long is QwQ Plus's context window?: QwQ Plus accepts up to 131,072 tokens (131K) of context and returns up to 8,192 tokens per response.