How much does Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 cost per million tokens?

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.80 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20?

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and returns up to 65,536 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20?

About $1.20, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Z.ai GLM 5.3 FlashX ($0.37 / $1.25) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Qwen API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Qwen sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Qwen · live price

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 API pricing

Qwen3.5 Plus (April 2026) is a large-scale multimodal language model from Alibaba. It accepts text, image, and video input and produces text output, with a 1M token context window. This...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)Tool callingReasoningimage inputvideo input

Input: $0.3; per 1M tokens
Output: $1.80; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 1M; 66K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Qwen's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released April 27, 2026. Model id qwen/qwen3.5-plus-20260420.

What Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$1.20

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$3.30

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$1.26

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

Alibaba$0.3 in · $1.80 out · 1M ctx · 99.7% uptime 24h

Where to buy Qwen credits for less

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.3 in / $1.80 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$33.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash	$0.15	$0.5	$0.237	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	$0.216	$0.647	$0.323	1.0M

Other Qwen models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen3.6 Flash	$0.188	$1.13	$0.422	1M
Qwen3.6 35B A3B	$0.15	$1	$0.362	262K
Qwen3.6 27B	$0.32	$3.20	$1.04	262K
Qwen3.7 Max	$1.48	$4.42	$2.21	1M
Qwen3.6 Plus	$0.325	$1.95	$0.731	1M
Qwen3.7 Plus	$0.32	$1.28	$0.56	1M

All Qwen API prices