Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5 Plus or Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, at $0.46 per million tokens against $2.34 for Qwen3.5 Plus, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.

Where is each one cheapest?

Qwen3.5 Plus: $2.34 at Eden AI. Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct: $0.46 at Cortecs.

Can I buy both from one provider?

Yes. 7 providers sell both: Eden AI, Nous Portal, NanoGPT, TrustedRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Alibaba Cloud (China), and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Eden AI.

Which holds more context?

Qwen3.5 Plus, at 1M tokens against 262k.

Qwen3.5 Plus vs Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct.

model vs model · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

Qwen3.5 Plus and Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct split the 5 rounds this table counts: the two list price rows, the cheapest price we can explain, the standard price and context. The weighting you pick decides the rest.

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen3.5 Plus

$2.34/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at Eden AI · $0.25 per 1,000 pages

1M context · tool calling · reads images

Eden AI ↗

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct

$0.46/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at Cortecs · $0.0568 per 1,000 pages

262k context · tool calling · open weights

Cortecs ↗

List price in (lower wins)

$0.40/M

$0.45/M

List price out (lower wins)

$2.40/M

$2.25/M

Cheapest we can explain (lower wins)

$2.34/M at Eden AI

$0.46/M at Cortecs

Standard price (lower wins)

$3.60/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

$0.25

$0.0568

Context

1M tokens

262k tokens

Open weights

yes

Tool calling

yes

Structured output

not stated

Reads images

yes

Reasoning

yes

Released

16 Feb 2026

1 Apr 2025

Providers selling it

Price we measure against

the maker's own

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

not stated

Providers selling both · 7

Eden AI$2.34 / $0.47
Nous Portal$2.70 / $0.48
NanoGPT$3.60 / $0.70
TrustedRouter$3.80 / $0.51
Vercel AI Gateway$3.70 / $1.05
Alibaba Cloud (China)$5.16 / $1.51
Alibaba Cloud$3.60 / $3.60

Qwen3.5 Plus then Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, per million tokens

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What moved in the last seven days

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B InstructNous Portal$0.06 / $0.22 $0.07 / $0.2725% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
Qwen3.5 PlusNous Portal$0.24 / $1.44 $0.30 / $1.8025% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
Qwen3.5 PlusVercel AI Gateway$0.40 / $2.40 $0.40 / $2.503% dearer · 16 Sept 2026

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5 Plus or Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct?: Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, at $0.46 per million tokens against $2.34 for Qwen3.5 Plus, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?: Qwen3.5 Plus: $2.34 at Eden AI. Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct: $0.46 at Cortecs.
Can I buy both from one provider?: Yes. 7 providers sell both: Eden AI, Nous Portal, NanoGPT, TrustedRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Alibaba Cloud (China), and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Eden AI.
Which holds more context?: Qwen3.5 Plus, at 1M tokens against 262k.

Prices exclude tax and are per million tokens, read 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own catalog. The standard price blends three parts input to one part output; a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.