Qwen API pricing. Up to 53% below list.

Qwen is Alibaba's family of models. Qwen 3.8 Max is the flagship, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts with native vision. Qwen 3.8 Flash is the fast, low-cost model, with 6B of its 125B parameters active per token, and Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash reads images and video alongside text. All of them hold 1M tokens of context. Zurelay serves them through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, below Alibaba's international list price.

Qwen models
3
Below Alibaba's list
40–53%
From, per 1M input
$0.07
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Pricing

Every Qwen model. Live prices, one key.

Each Qwen model on Zurelay, with Alibaba's list price beside ours.

Qwen API prices on Zurelay and at Alibaba's list price
ModelContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M10K requestsYou save
Qwen 3.8 Maxqwen3.8-max1M
$1.20
$2.00
$3.60
$6.00
$42.00
$70.00
40%off
Qwen 3.8 Flashqwen3.8-flash1M
$0.07
$0.15
$0.22
$0.47
$2.50
$5.35
53%off
Qwen 3.8 Omni Flashqwen3.8-omni-flash1M
$0.075
$0.15
$0.235
$0.47
$2.675
$5.35
50%off

Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens, live from the catalog, with Alibaba's list price struck through. 10K requests is 10,000 requests of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out, at each price. You save is on output tokens.

Which model

Which Qwen model to use. Same key for all of them.

40%off

Coding, agents and long documents

Qwen 3.8 Max

$1.20 / $3.60 per 1M tokens

Alibaba's flagship Qwen 3.8 model, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts with native vision.

Qwen 3.8 Max API
53%off

Fast, high-volume calls

Qwen 3.8 Flash

$0.07 / $0.22 per 1M tokens

125B parameters with 6B active per token, for coding helpers, agents and high-volume pipelines.

Qwen 3.8 Flash API
50%off

Images and video in

Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

$0.075 / $0.235 per 1M tokens

Alibaba's multimodal Qwen 3.8 model: send images and video with your text in one request and get text back.

Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash API

Quickstart

Change two lines. Keep your code.

Point the OpenAI SDK, or any OpenAI-compatible tool, at https://api.zurelay.com/v1 and use your Zurelay key. Streaming, tool calling and structured output work as documented.

Add credit from $10, with no subscription. The quickstart has the rest.

chat.py
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.zurelay.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_ZURELAY_KEY",
)
stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen3.8-max",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quicksort in two sentences."}],
    stream=True,
)
for chunk in stream:
    if chunk.choices:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="")

Verified

The Qwen you asked for. Checked every day.

Model capacity is often bought ahead, through prepaid credits, committed-spend contracts and volume tiers, and not all of it gets used. Sellers offer it below list price. Zurelay tests each route, pools several per model and sends every request to one that is available and verified.

Before a route serves requests, and every day after, it has to pass identity, dated-knowledge and reasoning checks that catch a different or older model sold under a newer name. Failed attempts move to another route, and you aren’t billed for them. How models are verified.

Live health for every model is on the status page.

FAQ

Qwen API questions.

Anything else? Ask our team and we’ll answer by email.

How much does the Qwen API cost?

On Zurelay, Qwen models cost from $0.07 input and $0.22 output per 1M tokens (Qwen 3.8 Flash) to $1.20 and $3.60 (Qwen 3.8 Max), 40–53% below Alibaba's list prices. There's no subscription or minimum spend: you add prepaid credit from $10 and pay for the tokens you use.

Is it the real Qwen?

Yes. Each model is served over several routes run by independent sellers. Every route is tested before it serves requests and every day after, with identity, dated-knowledge and reasoning checks that catch a different or older model sold under the name you asked for. If an answer doesn't look right, send its x-request-id to support and we check the route that served it.

Why is it cheaper than Alibaba's own API?

Sellers offer model capacity they bought ahead, through prepaid credits, committed-spend contracts and volume tiers, below list price. Zurelay tests it, pools several routes per model and sends each request to one that is available and verified. Requests aren't served under Alibaba's own terms for its customers; our Terms explain how they are served.

How do I start calling Qwen through Zurelay?

Create a key, then point the OpenAI SDK, or any OpenAI-compatible tool, at https://api.zurelay.com/v1 with a model ID such as qwen3.8-max. Code that already uses the OpenAI SDK only needs the base URL, the key and the model name changed.

What is the saving measured against?

Alibaba's international list price for each model, per input and output token.

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