AlibabaQwen-Plus
Qwen-Plus is an Alibaba proprietary reasoning model, released 25 Jan 2025. Its best configuration ranks #424 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 48.5 ±5.8, in the lower half. The ± is the point: 355 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in human preference (51) and lowest in reasoning (45). At $0.600 per million tokens blended it is mid-priced. Output speed of 52 tokens per second puts it in the slowest quarter, with a first token in 0.5 s. Last measured 22 Oct 2026.
- Blended price
- $0.600/M
- $0.400 in · $1.20 out
- Output speed
- 52 tok/s
- OpenRouter traffic, 7-day median; not yet measured by Artificial Analysis
- First answer
- 0.46 s
- Context
- 1M
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 25 Jan 2025
- Overall index49
- Reasoning45
- Coding50
- Maths46
- Human preference51
How its index has moved
8 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.
Benchmark results
See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.
Reasoning
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 48.1%#222 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| Arena Hard Prompts | 1352#212 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.3%#43 | Kagi LLM Benchmark | |
| LMCAnot in index | 24.0%#152 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| DTBenchnot in index | 81.1%#126 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
Coding
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Coding | 1379#217 | Arena (LMArena) |
Maths
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 17.8%#223 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| MATH Level 5 | 65.3%#41 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| Arena Maths | 1322#212 | Arena (LMArena) |
Instruction following
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Instruction Followingnot in index | 1332#206 | Arena (LMArena) |
Human preference
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Text | 1346#206 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Creative Writingnot in index | 1316#199 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Multi-turnnot in index | 1353#193 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Longer Queriesnot in index | 1363#195 | Arena (LMArena) |
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Int. | 52 tok/s | 0.64 s | $0.260 | $0.780 | 1M | – |
Price history
The price above, per 1M tokens, every day it changed.
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.080 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0005 | $0.0004 | 6.2 s |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.0055 | $0.0026 | 12.0 s |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.0042 | $0.0028 | 29.3 s |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.029 | $0.014 | 1.3 min |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0010 | $0.0006 | 4.3 s |
More from Alibaba
See also
Questions people ask
- What are Qwen-Plus's benchmark scores?
- As of 24 Oct 2026, Qwen-Plus scores 48.5 ±5.8 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in human preference (51) and weakest in reasoning (45). That rests on 8 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
- How does Qwen-Plus rank?
- Qwen-Plus is #424 of 785 ranked configurations on 24 Oct 2026. 355 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
- How much does Qwen-Plus cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 24 Oct 2026, Qwen-Plus costs $0.400 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, $0.600 blended (three input tokens per output token). The list price last changed on 24 Oct 2026.
- When was Qwen-Plus released?
- Alibaba released Qwen-Plus on 25 Jan 2025.
Data as of 24 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Qwen-Plus: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 24 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/qwen-plus.