Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Qwen)
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope international) API serving Qwen Max, Plus, Flash and Coder models plus third-party models.
The listed models support a 1-million-token context, but long prompts can cost more than the base rates shown. Qwen3.8-Flash starts at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens. These are Singapore prices. Frankfurt offers only a subset of models, at separate rates. None of the models listed here have open weights.
- Headquarters
- 🇨🇳 China
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇨🇳 China (parent: Alibaba Group)
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.alibabacloud.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Model | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens | Cached / 1M tokens | Context | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-Max | $2 | $6 | — | 1000k | frontier |
| Qwen3.7-Plus | $0.4 | $1.6 | — | 1000k | mid |
| Qwen3-Coder-Plus | $1 | $5 | — | 1000k | mid |
| Qwen3.8-Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | — | 1000k | small |
International (Singapore) deployment prices. Several models are tiered by prompt length; the base tier is shown (qwen3.7-plus: <=256K; qwen3-coder-plus: <=32K). A Frankfurt (EU) deployment exists only for a subset of models (e.g. qwen-plus, qwen-flash, qwen3-coder-plus/flash) at separately listed prices.
Managed alternatives
At 500M input tokens / month, 50M output tokens / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Qwen) · Qwen3.8-Flash: $1,182/yr estimated.
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No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace. We compare the selected model or the cheapest listed model in the chosen capability tier. Sharing a tier does not mean equal quality.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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