Roundup
Best AI Models for Coding
Which frontier models actually hold up in multi-file refactors, agentic tooling and test-driven work, and what they cost per million tokens.
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728
qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28
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.
Listed (8 Sept 2025)
Source: OpenRouter (live)
- Input
- $0.260
- USD per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.780
- USD per 1M tokens
- Blended
- $0.390
- 75% in / 25% out
- Context
- 1.0M
- tokens
- Max output
- 33K
- tokens
- Modality
- text->text
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Capabilities
Declared on the listing
- Tool / function calling Declared
- Reasoning controls Not declared
- Structured output Declared
- InputText
- OutputText
Capabilities are read from the provider listing. “Not declared” means the listing does not advertise the feature, not that it is absent.
Why it costs this
Pricing context
- 51% below median
- Cheap output
- Market median blended price is $0.800/M across 417 priced models.
Alternatives
More from Qwen (Alibaba)
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$3.00
/M blended
Qwen (Alibaba)
$0.230
/M blended
Qwen (Alibaba)
$0.788
/M blended
Qwen (Alibaba)
$3.00
/M blended
Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (batch)
Qwen (Alibaba)
$3.00
/M blended
Qwen (Alibaba)
$0.055
/M blended
Alternatives
Similar price, other providers
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking
Arcee Ai
$0.387
/M blended
Thedrummer
$0.400
/M blended
$0.400
/M blended
$0.400
/M blended
$0.402
/M blended
Cognitivecomputations
$0.375
/M blended
Within ±50% of $0.390/M blended.
Analysis
Related reading
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen open-weight family. All Qwen (Alibaba) models · Official site
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