Qwen Turbo
Qwen Turbo is a reasoning model from Qwen released on Nov 1, 2024. It reads text and writes text, with a 1M token context window and up to 16K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling.
5 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), NanoGPT and Ofox. The lowest input price is $0.044 per million tokens at Alibaba (China).
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.05 / $0.20 per 1M
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 16K
- Released
- Nov 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen Turbo pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.05 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.20 / 1M tokens | |
| Reasoning tokens | $0.50 / 1M tokens |
Qwen Turbo providers
5 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), NanoGPT and Ofox. The lowest input price is $0.044 per million tokens at Alibaba (China). Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba First party | $0.05 | $0.20 | – | 1M | 16K |
| Alibaba (China) | $0.044 | $0.087 | – | 1M | 16K |
| NanoGPT | $0.05 | $0.2006 | $0.025 | 1M | 8K |
| Ofox | $0.05 | $0.09 | $0.0086 | 128K | 16K |
| Qiniu | n/a | n/a | – | 1M | 4K |
What Qwen Turbo costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen Turbo through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen Turbo questions
How much does the Qwen Turbo API cost?
$0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen Turbo?
1,000,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 16,384 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen Turbo?
5 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), NanoGPT and Ofox. The lowest input price is $0.044 per million tokens at Alibaba (China). Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Qwen Turbo support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen Turbo open source?
No. Qwen serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Qwen Turbo released?
Nov 1, 2024, with training data up to Apr 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen Turbo?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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