Qwen · Balanced
Qwen Plus
Alibaba's balanced model. Fast, cheap, yet still very powerful.
- Reasoning
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.40
- Output
- $1.20
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 995.9K
- Max output
- 32.8K
Side by side
Qwen Plus compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen PlusQwenThis model | Mistral Medium 3MistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Added | Apr 15, 2024 | Sep 25, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 995.9KBest | 131.07K |
| Max output | 32.77K | 32.77K |
| Average output | — | 683 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.40Best | $0.40 |
| Output | $1.20Best | $2.00 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 107.8 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 0.7 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 9.0 |
| Math Index | — | 30.3 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen Plus
- Mistral Medium 3
Intelligence Index
- Qwen Plus—
- Mistral Medium 39.0
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 30.3
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 31.3%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 4.1%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 57.8%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 76.0%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 39.3%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 40.0%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 30.3%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 44.0%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 90.7%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 3.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 24.3%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen Plus: —
- Mistral Medium 3: 31.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen-plus",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen-plus",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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