Qwen3 235B-A22B pricing.
Prices checked
Qwen3 235B-A22B costs $0.70 in and $2.80 out per million tokens from Alibaba Cloud; the cheapest price is $0.21 at OpenRouter, checked .
Alibaba Cloud's own price
Alibaba Cloud
$0.70 in · $2.80 out
39% above the typical price of the 392 text models we track.
Cheapest price
OpenRouter
$0.09 in · $0.55 out
83% less than Alibaba Cloud, and the provider says why.
Every provider selling Qwen3 235B-A22B
- 1
$0.09 in · $0.55 out · 262k context here
$0.21/M tokens - 2
$0.09 in · $0.55 out · 262k context here
$0.21/M tokens - 3
$0.09 in · $0.55 out · 262k context here
$0.21/M tokens - 4
$0.09 in · $0.55 out · 262k context here
$0.21/M tokens - 5
$0.09 in · $0.55 out · 262k context here
$0.21/M tokens - 6
Submodel
Same as maker$0.20 in · $0.30 out · 262k context here
$0.23/M tokens - 7
$0.13 in · $0.60 out · 262k context here
$0.25/M tokens - 8
$0.20 in · $0.60 out · 262k context here
$0.30/M tokens - 9
$0.15 in · $0.75 out · 128k context here
$0.30/M tokens - 10
$0.15 in · $0.75 out · 128k context here
$0.30/M tokens - 11
$0.20 in · $0.60 out · 262k context here
$0.30/M tokens - 12
$0.20 in · $0.60 out · 32k context here
$0.30/M tokens - 13
$0.14 in · $0.80 out
$0.31/M tokens - 14
$0.15 in · $0.80 out
$0.31/M tokens - 15
$0.21 in · $0.63 out
$0.32/M tokens - 16
$0.20 in · $0.80 out · 41k context here
$0.35/M tokens - 17
$0.20 in · $0.80 out · 41k context here
$0.35/M tokens - 18
$0.20 in · $0.80 out · 128k context here
$0.35/M tokens - 19
$0.22 in · $0.80 out · 262k context here
$0.36/M tokens - 20
$0.22 in · $0.88 out
$0.39/M tokens - 21
$0.25 in · $1 out · 262k context here
$0.44/M tokens - 22
$0.29 in · $1.15 out
$0.50/M tokens - 23
$0.29 in · $1.15 out
$0.50/M tokens - 24

Qiniu
Runs it themselves$0.29 in · $1.16 out · 128k context here
$0.51/M tokens - 25
$0.37 in · $1.48 out · 262k context here
$0.65/M tokens
- 26
$0.29 in · $2.86 out · 128k context here
$0.93/M tokens - 27
$0.70 in · $2.80 out
$1.22/M tokens - 28
$0.84 in · $2.52 out · 260k context here
$1.26/M tokens - 29
$0.85 in · $2.57 out · 262k context here
$1.28/M tokens - 30

GreenPT
Costs more$1.03 in · $3.08 out · 262k context here
$1.54/M tokens - 31
$1.11 in · $3.33 out · 250k context here
$1.66/M tokens - 32
$2 in · $2 out
$2/M tokens
Not ranked
Below the maker's own price with nothing published to account for it, from a catalog we could not read reliably, or a free tier, which is a limit rather than a price. Why

ModelScope
Free tiergiven away with limits
free$0.07 in · $0.10 out · 262k context here
$0.08/M tokens$0.09 in · $0.10 out · 262k context here
$0.09/M tokens$0.09 in · $0.35 out · 262k context here
$0.15/M tokens$0.09 in · $0.35 out · 262k context here
$0.15/M tokensTensorX
Not ranked$0.07 in · $0.46 out
$0.17/M tokens$0.09 in · $0.58 out
$0.21/M tokens$0.46 in · $1.82 out · 33k context here
$0.80/M tokens
What it costs for your work
A month at Alibaba Cloud's own price
A month at OpenRouter, the cheapest
What you save
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Evidence
Each is a measurement of the stated version and configuration. Two benchmarks are not the same test, and a score is not the chance your own work succeeds.
BFCL V4 multi-turn V4 / bfcl-eval 2025.12.17
45.38 / 100Berkeley BFCL · model Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 · FC; multi-turn
Published 17 Oct 2026, read 31 Oct 2026
Read the sourceBFCL V4 web-search V4 / bfcl-eval 2025.12.17
54 / 100Berkeley BFCL · model Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 · FC; web-search
Published 17 Oct 2026, read 31 Oct 2026
Read the sourceBFCL V4 memory V4 / bfcl-eval 2025.12.17
23.87 / 100Berkeley BFCL · model Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 · FC; memory
Published 17 Oct 2026, read 31 Oct 2026
Read the sourceHow we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below Alibaba Cloud's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Resells
- The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Runs it themselves
- The provider runs the open weights on hardware of its own, so the price is its own rather than a resale.
- Lower precision
- The open weights, served at a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
- Credits
- Priced in credits or points that convert to dollars, so the rate moves when the conversion does.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Regional price
- A price list for one region, lower than the international one. A region, not a deal.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Costs more
- Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
- Free tier
- Given away inside a quota. A limit is not a price, so it is never called cheapest.
- Not ranked
- Below the maker's price on a closed model with nothing to account for it, or from a catalog we could not read reliably. Listed, and never a pick.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what Qwen3 235B-A22B does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Qwen3 235B-A22B's cheapest price, $0.21 per M tokens.
Frequently asked
- Who sells Qwen3 235B-A22B cheapest?
- OpenRouter, at $0.09 in and $0.55 out per million tokens, checked 31 Oct 2026. The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Is Qwen3 235B-A22B open weights?
- Yes. Alibaba Cloud publishes the weights, so anyone may host Qwen3 235B-A22B, which is why 33 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Qwen3 235B-A22B hold?
- 131,072 tokens in one call, which is about 131k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Qwen3 235B-A22B compare with the rest of the market?
- At $1.22 per million tokens, Alibaba Cloud's own price is 39% above the typical $0.88 across the 392 text models we track.
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