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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) Pricing
Qwen · qwen-qwen-plus-2025-07-28-thinking
Input / 1M tokens
$0.400
Output / 1M tokens
$1.20
Context window
1M tokens
≈ 1,333 pages of text
Max output
32,768 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.001
1,000 requests / month$0.96/mo10,000 requests / month$9.60/mo100,000 requests / month$96.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.
What it excels at
Supports 1M-token contexts at low input cost; open weights permit self-hosted or fine-tuned deployments.
The business tradeoff
Output tokens priced three times higher than input; inference quality and latency depend on user-managed infrastructure.
Cheaper from Qwen
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jul 28, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.