Qwen API

LLM 5.1/10

Qwen-Turbo $0.05/$0.20; qwen3-coder-plus tiered; Qwen3 Max $0.78/$3.90 per 1M. 1M free tokens at signup

Tokens / month: 1M

Qwen API scores 5.1/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Paid — Pay-as-you-go, from $0.05/M. Qwen-Turbo $0.05/$0.20; qwen3-coder-plus tiered; Qwen3 Max $0.78/$3.90 per 1M. 1M free tokens at signup.

Category LLM Kind Paid plan

Free value score

5.1 / 10

Show the math

Model Quality 4.3/10

value = 24 artificial_analysis_score

weighted score = 0.2 * 4.3/10

Access 10/10

value = 10/10

weighted score = 0.1 * 10/10

Price Efficiency 4.6/10

value = 641026 tok/$

weighted score = 0.7 * 4.6/10

Key metrics

Qwen3 Max 24 Best model

1.0M T/mo Free tokens

$1.56/M Price

What you get

Paid — Pay-as-you-go, from $0.05/M. Qwen-Turbo $0.05/$0.20; qwen3-coder-plus tiered; Qwen3 Max $0.78/$3.90 per 1M. 1M free tokens at signup

~20M input tokens/$1 on Qwen-Turbo; ~1.3M input/$1 on Qwen3 Max

Gotchas

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Sources

"Qwen3 Max was released on September 23, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.780 per million input tokens and $3.90 per million output tokens."
https://pricepertoken.com/pricing-page/model/qwen-qwen3-max
"Qwen's cheapest text tier is Qwen-Turbo at $0.05 input / $0.20 output per million tokens."
https://www.eesel.ai/blog/qwen-pricing
"Alibaba's updated Qwen3 Max is the most intelligent non-reasoning model, placing ahead of Kimi K2 0905!"
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1971700319022469408

paid value llm-providers

Open service ← All LLM

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