Alibaba · Text model · GA
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Figures checked 1 Nov 2026. A dash means not published on the sources we checked, so it stays blank rather than estimated. AA index and speed are from Artificial Analysis at the 0902 setting.
Highlighted point is Qwen3.8-Max. Grey points are the other 26 text models with both figures. Index at each model's best tested setting.
| Model | Index | Blended US$/1M |
|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | 57 | 20.000 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | 55 | 4.000 |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | 51 | 2.000 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 28 | 0.200 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | 50 | 20.000 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | 58 | 8.000 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 54 | 4.000 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | 36 | 0.200 |
| Gemini 4 Carbon | 59 | 4.000 |
| Gemini 4 Argon | 50 | 4.000 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 31 | 1.500 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 12 | 0.850 |
| Grok 4.7 | 35 | 3.000 |
| Muse Wonder | 43 | 8.000 |
| Mistral Large 4 | 26 | 1.050 |
| Mistral Small 4 | 4 | 0.262 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | 32 | 0.525 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | 23 | 1.980 |
| Qwen3.8-Max | 34 | 3.000 |
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | 46 | 4.000 |
| GLM-5.3 | 32 | 2.150 |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | 28 | 0.237 |
| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | 29 | 0.262 |
| MiniMax M3 | 19 | 0.525 |
| MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 30 | 0.544 |
| MiMo-V2.6-Flash | 27 | 0.175 |
| Step 5 Preview | 29 | 1.425 |
US$ per 1M tokens, standard tier, short prompts. Output left blank where not published.
| Model | Input US$/1M | Output US$/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-Max | 2 | 6 |
| Grok 4.7 | 2 | 6 |
| GLM-5.3 | 1.4 | 4.4 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 0.75 | 3.75 |
| Step 5 Preview | 1 | 2.7 |
| Lab | Alibaba |
|---|---|
| Type | Text |
| Status | GA qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Released | 3 Aug 2026 alibabacloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| API access | Yes qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| API model ID | – |
| API rate limits | – |
| Consumer app plans | – |
| Price at each level | – |
| Input per 1M tokens | US$2 qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Output per 1M tokens | US$6 qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Cached input | US$0.25 qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Batch in / out | US$1 / US$3 qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Other pricing | – |
| Context window | 1M tokens qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab)Up to 991K input |
| Max output | 131K tokens qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Input types | text, image, video qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Output types | text |
| Weights | Open huggingface.co (opens in a new tab)Text-only checkpoint released |
| Reasoning | Yes qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Tool use | Yes qwencloud.com (opens in a new tab) |
| Artificial Analysis index | 34 (0902) artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab) |
| Output speed | 40 tokens/s artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab) |
| Time to first token | 3.1 s artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab) |
| Reasoning levels | – |
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