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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

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Alibaba · Released Sep 2025

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Qwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.

Strengths
Handles both straightforward tasks and complex multi-step reasoning without significant speed penalties due to its hybrid architecture.
Best for
Applications requiring extended context windows and reasoning tasks where latency matters, such as document analysis, research synthesis, and code generation with dependencies.
Limitations
The hybrid reasoning approach may not match specialized reasoning-only models on pure reasoning benchmarks, and the full capabilities at extreme context window sizes are not well characterized yet.

Input / 1M

$0.26

Output / 1M

$0.78

Cached input / 1M

Context window

1M

Price history

Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price per 1M tokens over timeOutput went from $0.78 to $0.78; Input went from $0.26 to $0.26 between Jun 2026 and Aug 2026.$0$0.5$1.00Output on 11 Jun 2026: $0.78Output on 29 Jun 2026: $0.78Output on 29 Jul 2026: $1.20Output on 15 Aug 2026: $0.78Out $0.78Input on 11 Jun 2026: $0.26Input on 29 Jun 2026: $0.26Input on 29 Jul 2026: $0.4Input on 15 Aug 2026: $0.26In $0.26Jun 2026Aug 2026

Price change

30d
in decreased 35.0% out decreased 35.0%
90d
in decreased 0.0% out decreased 0.0%
1y
in decreased 0.0% out decreased 0.0%
Since launch
in decreased 0.0% out decreased 0.0%

Snapshots

Effective Input Output Cached in Note Source
15 Aug 2026 $0.26 $0.78 Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
29 Jul 2026 $0.4 $1.20 Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
29 Jun 2026 $0.26 $0.78 Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
11 Jun 2026 $0.26 $0.78 Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai

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