Qwen · Efficient
Qwen Turbo
Alibaba's fastest and cheapest model. Suitable for simple tasks, fast and low cost, with a 1 million token context window.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.05
- Output
- $0.20
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 8.2K
Side by side
Qwen Turbo compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen TurboQwenThis model | Solar Mini 4upstageRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | upstage |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Apr 15, 2024 | Sep 23, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1MBest | 524.29K |
| Max output | 8.19K | 131.07KBest |
| Average output | — | 561 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.05Best | $0.05 |
| Output | $0.20 | $0.20Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.005 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 90.8 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 2.2 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 89.1% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 24.1 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen Turbo
- Solar Mini 4
Intelligence Index
- Qwen Turbo—
- Solar Mini 424.1
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 22.3%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 2.4%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 867 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 1,085 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 5.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 83.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 6.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 25.8%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 1.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 47.6%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen Turbo: —
- Solar Mini 4: 83.3%
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-turbo",
"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-turbo",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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