Qwen3 VL 235B pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) ·
dashscope-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct ·
131K context
· 18th cheapest of 64 current models
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What Qwen3 VL 235B costs
| Rate | Per 1M tokens | Per 1K tokens | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.4 | $0.0004 | Every token you send: prompt, history, documents. |
| Output | $1.6 | $0.0016 | Every token the model generates, including hidden reasoning tokens. |
What that means in practice
The same three workloads are costed on every model page, so these numbers are directly comparable across the catalog. No prompt caching and no batch discount is assumed — the figures are what you pay before you optimise anything.
Support chatbot
2,500 six-turn conversations a day
$1,449 / month
$0.019 per conversation · $17,630 a year
An 800-token system prompt, 400-token questions and 900-token answers, over six turns — each turn re-sending everything before it.
Document summariser
1,000 single-shot summaries a day
$185 / month
$0.0062 per conversation · $2,248 a year
One 12,000-token document in, an 800-token summary out, no conversation history. The case where input dominates the bill.
Coding agent
200 twelve-turn sessions a day
$1,051 / month
$0.175 per conversation · $12,790 a year
A 3,000-token system prompt, 1,500-token instructions and 2,500-token responses over twelve turns. Long sessions are where the quadratic cost of re-sent history stops being theoretical.
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Cheaper models in the catalog
Nothing cheaper is scored as highly as Qwen3 VL 235B, so these are simply the cheaper options, best-scored first. Trading down here is a real trade.
| Model | Input | Output | Blended saving | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.435 | $0.87 | 22% | |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.28 | $0.4 | 56% | |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | $0.2 | $1.2 | 36% | |
| MiniMax M3 | $0.3 | $1.2 | 25% | |
| Qwen3 Next 80B | $0.15 | $1.2 | 41% |
Specification
| Context window | 131K tokens |
|---|---|
| Maximum output | 33K tokens |
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Status | Current |
| Reasoning model | Yes |
| Vision | No |
| Token counting | Estimated at ~3.5 characters per token (Estimate — Qwen tokenizer, calibrated for mixed English/Chinese) |
Where these numbers come from
Last checked against its source on 2026-08-02, and the published rates last actually moved on 2026-08-02. Source of record: LiteLLM’s community-maintained price map.
Alibaba (Qwen)’s own pricing page
Regional and data-residency premiums, priority tiers, server-side tool fees and negotiated discounts are not included. Prices change without notice; this page is rebuilt every time the catalog does.