Qwen Pricing
Every Qwen plan with its monthly and annual price, what it costs for common team sizes, and a calculator to estimate your own monthly cost before you buy.
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Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Per user or flat | Users | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open-weight models | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | Yes |
| Qwen Chat | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | Yes |
| Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
Prices last updated November 2026.
What each Qwen plan includes
Open-weight models
- Apache 2.0 for many checkpoints
- You pay your own hardware costs
- Self-host via vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama
Qwen Chat
- Free web chat access
- No subscription required
Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go)
- Billed per million tokens
- Batch calls at 50% of real-time price
- Context cache discounts on input tokens
- 1M-token free quota for newer models, valid 90 days
What Qwen costs by team size
| Team size | 1 user | 5 users | 10 users | 25 users | 50 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | FreeOpen-weight models | FreeOpen-weight models | FreeOpen-weight models | FreeOpen-weight models | FreeOpen-weight models |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges.
Usage pricing
| Metric | Plan | Included per month | Price after that |
|---|---|---|---|
| qwen-flash input (0-256K) | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $0.05 per 1M tokens |
| qwen-flash output (0-256K) | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $0.40 per 1M tokens |
| qwen-max input | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $1.60 per 1M tokens |
| qwen-max output | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $6.40 per 1M tokens |
| qwen-plus input (0-256K) | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $0.40 per 1M tokens |
| qwen-plus output non-thinking (0-256K) | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $1.20 per 1M tokens |
| qwen3.7-max input | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $2.50 per 1M tokens |
| qwen3.7-max output | Model Studio API (pay-as-you-go) | None | $7.50 per 1M tokens |
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Cost breakdown
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Qwen pricing FAQs
Yes. Many open-weight checkpoints are Apache 2.0 licensed and run on vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, or LM Studio. Hardware and operations costs are yours.
Prices are tiered by input size per request. For example, qwen-plus input costs $0.40 per million tokens up to 256K and $1.20 above that. Batch calls are billed at 50%, and cache hits are discounted.
Yes, Qwen has a free plan: Open-weight models.
Qwen's Open-weight models plan includes Apache 2.0 for many checkpoints, You pay your own hardware costs and Self-host via vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama.
Qwen is free for 10 users on its Open-weight models plan.
Yes. Qwen charges by usage for qwen-flash input (0-256K), qwen-flash output (0-256K), qwen-max input and 5 more, past what the plan includes.