Qwen3.5 Plus vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
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Qwen3.5 Plus and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct split the 5 rounds this table counts: the maker's two prices, the cheapest price, the maker's blended price and context. The weighting you pick decides the rest.
Alibaba CloudQwen3.5 Plus
1M context · tool calling · reads images
$0.26/M tokensCheapest price, at Alibaba Cloud (China) · $0.11 per 1,000 pages
Alibaba CloudQwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
262k context · tool calling · open weights
$0.12/M tokensCheapest price, at Hugging Face Inference Providers · 5.8¢ per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.40/M
$0.45/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$2.40/M
$2.25/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
$0.26/M at Alibaba Cloud (China)
$0.12/M at Hugging Face Inference Providers
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.90/M
$0.90/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$0.11
5.8¢
Context
1M tokens
262k tokens
Open weights
no
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
not published
Reads images
yes
no
Reasoning
yes
no
Released
16 Feb 2026
1 Apr 2025
Providers selling it
20
21
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not published
not published
Providers selling both · 7
Alibaba Cloud (China)$0.26 / $0.38
Eden AI$0.58 / $0.12
Nous Portal$0.68 / $0.12
NanoGPT$0.90 / $0.17
Vercel AI Gateway$0.90 / $0.26
TrustedRouter$0.95 / $0.28- Alibaba Cloud$0.90 / $0.90
Qwen3.5 Plus, then Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, per million tokens.
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Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5 Plus or Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, at $0.12 per million tokens against $0.26 for Qwen3.5 Plus, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Qwen3.5 Plus: $0.26 at Alibaba Cloud (China). Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: $0.12 at Hugging Face Inference Providers.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 7 providers sell both: Alibaba Cloud (China), Eden AI, Nous Portal, NanoGPT, Vercel AI Gateway, TrustedRouter, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Alibaba Cloud (China).
- Which holds more context?
- Qwen3.5 Plus, at 1M tokens against 262k.
Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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