Qwen3 Coder Flash
Qwen3 Coder Flash is a language model from Qwen released on Jul 28, 2025. It reads text and writes text, with a 1M token context window and up to 66K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
11 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), Merge Gateway and Kilo Gateway. The lowest input price is $0.144 per million tokens at Alibaba (China).
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.30 / $1.50 per 1M
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 66K
- Released
- Jul 28, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen3 Coder Flash 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 | $0.30 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
Qwen3 Coder Flash providers
11 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), Merge Gateway and Kilo Gateway. The lowest input price is $0.144 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 | $0.30 | $1.50 | – | 1M | 66K |
| Alibaba (China) | $0.144 | $0.574 | – | 1M | 66K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.144 | $0.574 | $0.0288 | 1M | 250K |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.195 | $0.975 | $0.039 | 1M | 66K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.06 | 998K | 66K |
| Eden AI | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.06 | 1M | 66K |
| LLM Gateway | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.06 | 998K | 66K |
| LLMTR | $0.30 | $1.50 | – | 1M | 66K |
| NanoGPT | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.15 | 128K | 66K |
| DigitalOcean | $0.45 | $1.70 | $0.09 | 262K | 262K |
| Ofox | $0.50 | $2.50 | $0.06 | 1M | 66K |
What Qwen3 Coder Flash costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen3 Coder Flash through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen3 Coder Flash questions
How much does the Qwen3 Coder Flash API cost?
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.50 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 Qwen3 Coder Flash?
1,000,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 65,536 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen3 Coder Flash?
11 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), Merge Gateway and Kilo Gateway. The lowest input price is $0.144 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 Qwen3 Coder Flash support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen3 Coder Flash open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Qwen3 Coder Flash released?
Jul 28, 2025, with training data up to Apr 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen3 Coder Flash?
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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