Alibaba Cloud · multimodal · Released 2026-05-10

Qwen3 Chat: pricing, context window and benchmarks

Qwen3 Chat is a multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud. It offers a 128,000-token context window, costs $4.75 per million input tokens and $17.42 per million output tokens, and averages 79.1 across the index's benchmark suite.

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Input price
$4.75
per 1M tokens
Output price
$17.42
per 1M tokens
Context
128,000
tokens
Avg score
79.1
rank #147 of 600
Arena Elo
1417.2
modelled
Max output
65,536
tokens

Pricing

Qwen3 Chat costs $4.75 per million input tokens and $17.42 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $7.92 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.65 per million tokens.

ItemPriceNotes
Input$4.75per 1M tokens
Output$17.42per 1M tokens
Cached input$0.65per 1M tokens
Blended 3:1$7.92estimate per 1M tokens
1M in + 1M out$22.17estimate

Benchmarks

Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 83.4 98 84th
GPQA Diamond 73.9 173 71th
SWE-bench Verified 68.5 133 78th
HumanEval 83.9 136 77th
MATH-500 81.4 180 70th
AIME 2025 73.8 190 68th
LiveCodeBench 72.2 144 76th
IFEval 87.5 118 80th
TruthfulQA 81.3 145 76th
HellaSwag 86.5 194 68th
MMMU 77.3 110 82th
Arena Elo 1417.2 160 73th

What Qwen3 Chat is good for

Qwen3 Chat is tuned toward coding work. It is a reasonable candidate for code generation, review, debugging and repository-scale tasks, especially when paired with a retrieval layer. At $4.75 per million input tokens, it sits in the mid-range of the index, and the 128,000-token context window is enough for large files and multi-file diffs.

Strengths

  • Large 128,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
  • Open weights make self-hosting, fine-tuning and data-residency review possible.
  • Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
  • Coding benchmarks are a relative strength within its tier.

Trade-offs

  • No standout weakness in the indexed specifications, but real-world behaviour still needs testing.

How it compares

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 4 Maverick Base Meta AI 128000 $4.68 79.1
Llama 4 Scout Instruct Meta AI 32768 $4.59 79.1
Mistral Large 3 Chat Mistral AI 1000000 $4.90 79.1
Qwen3 Chat Alibaba Cloud 128000 $4.75 79.1
Sonar Pro Perplexity 128000 $13.01 79.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Mini Anthropic 65536 $12.72 79.0

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FAQ

How much does Qwen3 Chat cost?

Qwen3 Chat is listed at $4.75 per million input tokens and $17.42 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.65 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $7.92 per million tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen3 Chat?

Qwen3 Chat has a context window of 128,000 tokens and can emit up to 65,536 output tokens per request in this index.

Is Qwen3 Chat open weights?

Yes. Qwen3 Chat is listed as an open-weight model under a open weights licence.

How does Qwen3 Chat score on benchmarks?

Qwen3 Chat averages 79.1 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #147 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1417.2.

What is Qwen3 Chat best for?

Qwen3 Chat is tuned toward coding work. It is a reasonable candidate for code generation, review, debugging and repository-scale tasks, especially when paired with a retrieval layer. At $4.75 per million input tokens, it sits in the mid-range of the index, and the 128,000-token context window is enough for large files and multi-file diffs.

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