Alibaba

Qwen3.5 Plus

Revisado por el equipo de investigación de GetInfoUsÚltima revisión: October 2026Política editorial
87
Intelligence Index

comercial cloud multimodal caballo de batalla que ofrece un 1M token ventana de contexto, profundo visión comprensión, y robust agentic herramienta handling.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Alibaba
Category
flagship
Release Date
2026-02
Knowledge Cutoff
December 2025
Architecture
Enterprise Million-Token Multimodal Transformer
Parameters
Confidential
Context Window
1M tokens
Max Output
16K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0.06 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
50% off async batch
Consumer Subscription
API Pay-as-you-go
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Configurable (Low / Med / High)
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
No (Proprietary Cloud)
Input Modalities
text, vision
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
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Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
API payloads are excluded from model training by default
Model License & Commercial Rights
Proprietary Commercial API (Alibaba Terms)
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Alibaba Cloud API & Enterprise Endpoints
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
qwen3-5-plus-instruct
Supported SDK & API Protocol
Alibaba REST API (OpenAI-Compatible)
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2028+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
5,000 – 15,000 RPM (Production Tier) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Flat rate ($0.6/1M in) across full 1000K window
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Cached input at $0.06/1M tokens
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
API Prompt Engineering & RAG Distillation
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Weights Precision & Quantization
Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
Supported Inference Engines
Managed Alibaba Cloud API
System Card & Safety Framework
Alibaba Production Safety & Alignment Verified
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Qwen3.5 Plus Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
$55.80$72.00
Monthly Savings: $16.20 (Caching/Batch)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

For single-user chat, a $20/mo subscription caps your bill below this API volume.

Break-even point: ~179 requests/day equals $20/month.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Qwen3.5 Plus (Active)
$55.80
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Qwen3.5 Plus:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$27.45/mo
Saves $28.35/mo (51% cost reduction) vs sending 100% of traffic to Qwen3.5 Plus.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (74)Reasoning (83)Knowledge (85)Speed (57)Context (100)Cost Value (84)
Qwen3.5 Plus2026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
64%
GPQA Diamond
72%
MMLU-Pro
85%
HumanEval
95.5%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1410pts

Strengths

  • masivo 1M token ventana de contexto con completo imagen y video frame ingesta
  • competitivo codificación y razonamiento scores nearing OpenAI y Anthropic flagships
  • Outstanding economic valor un $0.60 por millones entrada tokens

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • audio modalities no natively supported en el Plus branch
  • puede exhibit slight response latencia bajo heavy concurrent batch loads

Editorial Assessment

el definitivo precio-rendimiento multimodal caballo de batalla de early 2026.

Best for: multimodal empresarial documento análisis, de contexto largo codebases, y autónomo web agentes

Frequently Asked Questions about Qwen3.5 Plus

How much does the Qwen3.5 Plus API cost per 1M tokens?+

Qwen3.5 Plus by Alibaba is priced at $0.6 per 1M input tokens and $2.4 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.06 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Qwen3.5 Plus pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Qwen3.5 Plus's context window?+

Qwen3.5 Plus features a 1M tokens context window, which equals approximately 750,000 English words or ~2,000 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 16,384 tokens.

Can I run Qwen3.5 Plus locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

No, Qwen3.5 Plus is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by Alibaba. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via Alibaba's official API or cloud platform.

Does Alibaba train on data sent to the Qwen3.5 Plus API, and is commercial use allowed?+

API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (Alibaba Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Alibaba Cloud API & Enterprise Endpoints.

How does Qwen3.5 Plus perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Qwen3.5 Plus achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 87/100, scoring 64% on SWE-bench Verified, 72% on GPQA Diamond, 85% on MMLU-Pro, and 1410 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Qwen3.5 Plus best used for?+

Qwen3.5 Plus is best suited for: multimodal empresarial documento análisis, de contexto largo codebases, y autónomo web agentes. Assessment: el definitivo precio-rendimiento multimodal caballo de batalla de early 2026.

Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.

Fuentes: Alibaba Cloud DashScope API Documentation↗