Qwen3 Coder Flash vs Qwen3 Coder Next.
model vs model · prices as of
Qwen3 Coder Flash and Qwen3 Coder Next 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 CloudQwen3 Coder Flash
$1.01/M tokens
cheapest we can explain, at Alibaba Cloud (China) · $0.121 per 1,000 pages
1M context · tool calling
Alibaba CloudQwen3 Coder Next
$1.00/M tokens
cheapest we can explain, at LLM Gateway · $0.105 per 1,000 pages
262k context · tool calling · open weights
List price in (lower wins)
$0.30/M
$0.30/M
List price out (lower wins)
$1.50/M
$1.50/M
Cheapest we can explain (lower wins)
$1.01/M at Alibaba Cloud (China)
$1.00/M at LLM Gateway
Standard price (lower wins)
$2.40/M
$2.40/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$0.121
$0.105
Context
1M tokens
262k tokens
Open weights
no
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
not stated
yes
Reads images
no
no
Reasoning
no
no
Released
28 Jul 2025
4 Feb 2026
Providers selling it
14
20
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not stated
not stated
Providers selling both · 7
Nous Portal$1.56 / $1.16
Eden AI$1.56 / $1.44
LLM Gateway$2.40 / $1.00
TrustedRouter$2.53 / $1.22
NanoGPT$2.40 / $2.10- Alibaba Cloud$2.40 / $2.40
Ofox$4 / $2.10
Qwen3 Coder Flash then Qwen3 Coder Next, per million tokens
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What moved in the last seven days
- Qwen3 Coder FlashNous Portal$0.16 / $0.78 $0.20 / $0.9725% dearer ·
- Qwen3 Coder NextEden AI$0.17 / $0.93 $0.17 / $0.920.7% cheaper ·
- Qwen3 Coder NextAlibaba CloudAlibaba Cloud's list price, in and out per million tokens$0.12 / $0.80 $0.30 / $1.50107% dearer ·
- Qwen3 Coder NextNous Portal$0.10 / $0.64 $0.12 / $0.8025% dearer ·
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Qwen3 Coder Flash or Qwen3 Coder Next?
- Qwen3 Coder Next, at $1.00 per million tokens against $1.01 for Qwen3 Coder Flash, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: $1.01 at Alibaba Cloud (China). Qwen3 Coder Next: $1.00 at LLM Gateway.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 7 providers sell both: Nous Portal, Eden AI, LLM Gateway, TrustedRouter, NanoGPT, Alibaba Cloud, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Nous Portal.
- Which holds more context?
- Qwen3 Coder Flash, 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.