Qwen Plus 0728
ActiveQwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.
Overview
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.
History
Qwen Plus 0728 became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-09-08.
Training & availability
Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-31 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 1.0M tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Recommended for: long-context, cheap.
Limitations
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The knowledge cutoff is 12 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
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Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.
Pricing
- Input: $0.2600 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.7800 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen-plus-2025-07-28",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Providers & performance
1 providerMulti-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.
| Provider | Throughput | Latency (TTFT) | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Context | Quant | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | 52tok/s | 849ms | $0.26 | $0.78 | 1.0M | — | tools · json |
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
- —
- Effective price
- $0.65/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $0.26/1M in
$0.78/1M out
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