Qwen Plus API

alibaba/qwen-plus
Qwen-Plus: Alibaba's advanced multilingual model with enhanced reasoning and instruction-following capabilities.
Context
128K tokens
Input
$0.52 / 1M tokens
Output
$1.56 / 1M tokens
Released
Sep 9, 2025

Overview

Qwen Plus Description

  • Model Name: Qwen-Plus
  • Developer/Creator: Alibaba Cloud
  • Release Date: January 25, 2025
  • Model Type: Text
Overview:

Qwen-Plus is an advanced large language model developed by Alibaba Cloud, designed to support multiple languages such as Chinese and English.

Key Features:
  • Multilingual support, including Chinese and English.
  • Enhanced reasoning capabilities for complex tasks.
  • Improved instruction-following abilities.

API Pricing

Input:

  • 0–256k: $0.52 per million tokens
  • 256k+: $1.56 per million tokens

Output:

  • 0–256k: $1.56 per million tokens
  • 256k+: $4.6 per million tokens
Intended Use:

Qwen-Plus is designed for a variety of applications, including natural language understanding, text generation, and multilingual tasks. Its enhanced reasoning and instruction-following capabilities make it suitable for complex problem-solving and detailed analysis.

Language Support:

Qwen-Plus supports multiple languages, with a focus on Chinese and English.

Technical Details

Architecture:

Qwen-Plus is built upon the Transformer architecture, which is the foundation for many state-of-the-art language models. This architecture enables efficient processing of sequential data and supports advanced features like attention mechanisms.

  • Training Data: The model was trained on a large-scale dataset comprising 18 trillion tokens, providing a strong foundation for common sense, expert knowledge, and reasoning capabilities.
  • Data Source and Size: The training data encompasses a diverse range of sources, including web pages, books, and other textual materials, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of various topics and languages.
  • Diversity and Bias: Efforts were made to include diverse data sources to minimize biases. However, like all large language models, Qwen-Plus may still exhibit biases present in the training data. Continuous evaluation and mitigation strategies are employed to address these issues.
Performance Metrics:

Qwen-Plus demonstrates top-tier performance on a wide range of benchmarks evaluating language understanding, reasoning, mathematics, coding, and human preference alignment.

Usage

Code Samples:

The model is available on the AI/ML API platform as "Qwen Plus" .

API Documentation:

Detailed API Documentation is available here.

Ethical Guidelines

Developers are encouraged to consider ethical implications when deploying Qwen-Plus, including issues related to data privacy, bias mitigation, and responsible use. Adhering to ethical guidelines ensures that the model is used in a manner that respects user rights and societal norms.

Licensing

Qwen Plus is available under specific licensing terms provided by Alibaba Cloud. Users are advised to review the licensing information to understand the permissions and restrictions associated with the model's use.

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Get Qwen Plus API here.

Uptime and performance

  • Uptime (24h): 100%
  • Uptime (7d): 100%
  • Availability (24h): 100%
  • Error rate (24h): 0%

Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.

Use cases

  • enterprise virtual assistants and multilingual customer support
  • content creation in marketing, creative writing, and roleplaying scenarios
  • interactive multi-turn chatbots with instruction following and reasoning
  • multilingual translation and document summarization
  • API-driven AI agents with external tool integrations
  • code generation and debugging assistance
  • educational and research applications involving long-form content comprehension

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How to use Qwen Plus API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to alibaba/qwen-plus.
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY},
    json={
      "model": "alibaba/qwen-plus",
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": "Hello!"
        }
      ]
    },
)
print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "alibaba/qwen-plus",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello!"
      }
    ]
  }),
});
console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"alibaba/qwen-plus","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Qwen Plus API Pricing

TypePrice
Input
$0.52 / 1M tokens
Output
$1.56 / 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.104 / 1M tokens

Qwen Plus vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
Qwen Plus
This page
$0.52 / 1M tokens
$1.56 / 1M tokens
128K tokens
Coding + agents
$6.5 / 1M tokens
$39 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents
$2.6 / 1M tokens
$13 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Balanced coding + agents
$3.9 / 1M tokens
$19.5 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows
$1.95 / 1M tokens
$11.7 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents

Frequently asked questions

Qwen Plus has a 131,000 tokens context window and can return up to 16,384 tokens.

Qwen Plus takes text as input and returns text.

Use alibaba/qwen-plus as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.

Qwen Plus became available on September 9, 2025.

Qwen Plus is priced at input $0.52 / 1M tokens, output $1.56 / 1M tokens, cached input $0.104 / 1M tokens.

Yes, Qwen Plus can stream responses as they are generated.

Qwen Plus was built by Alibaba Cloud.

Yes, Qwen Plus supports function calling, including parallel tool calls and structured outputs.

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