Qwen-Turbo
ActiveQwen-Turbo, based on Qwen2.5, is a 1M context model that provides fast speed and low cost, suitable for simple tasks.
Overview
Qwen-Turbo, based on Qwen2.5, is a 1M context model that provides fast speed and low cost, suitable for simple tasks.
History
Qwen-Turbo became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-02-01.
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: 131K tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Recommended for: 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: $0.0325 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.1300 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-turbo",
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.
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
- $0.106/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $0.0325/1M in
$0.13/1M out
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