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 | Qwen 3.8 27B AntislopQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Open weights |
| Added | Apr 15, 2024 | Oct 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 995.9KBest | 262.14K |
| Max output | 32.77K | 32.77K |
| Average output | — | 299 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.40 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $1.20 | $0.60Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.05 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 33.8 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 2.1 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 99.1% |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
There are no public benchmark results for these models yet.
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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