Qwen3.5-122B-A10B API Pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) · context window 262K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Qwen3.5-122B-A10B sits on price
At $2.08 per million output tokens, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is a mid tier model — right at the median output price of $2.08, which puts it cheaper than 50% and pricier than 50% of the models we track. It sits 38th cheapest of the 53 Alibaba (Qwen) models we track. Output costs 8.0× more than input here, so anything that makes the model write less — tighter instructions, structured output, lower max_tokens — moves the bill more than trimming the prompt.
What real workloads cost on Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a mid-priced model — a $2.08/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win. | $0.0042 | $63.18 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0018 | $546 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0004 | $13.26 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Qwen3.5-122B-A10B with caching and batch options.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B price history
Alibaba (Qwen) last cut Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's output price on Sep 10, 2026 (-13% per output token), from $0.29/$2.40 to $0.26/$2.08 per 1M in/out. That is one of 4 repricings in the 44 days we have tracked it — worth knowing before you hard-code today's rate into a budget.
| Date | Input /1M | Output /1M | Output change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2026 (tracking began) | $0.26 | $2.08 | — |
| Aug 7, 2026 | $0.29 | $2.40 | +15% |
| Aug 21, 2026 | $0.26 | $2.08 | -13% |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $0.29 | $2.40 | +15% |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $0.26 | $2.08 | -13% |
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B vs R1 0528
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is R1 0528 (DeepSeek) — 3% more expensive on output, with $0.24 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B API cost?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.26 per million input tokens and $2.08 per million output tokens and no discounted cached-input tier. That works out to roughly 480,769 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.0042 per request and $63.18 per month on Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's 262K context window?
Sending 262K of input in a single request costs $0.0682 at $0.26 per million tokens — before any output. There is no cached-input tier on this model, so every repeat of that context is billed at full price. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Qwen3.5-122B-A10B worth the price?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B sits in the middle of the market (38 of 53 by price within Alibaba (Qwen)). The honest test is a routing experiment: send the same 200 real requests to this model and to a tier below, and compare failure rate against the price gap — most teams find a majority of traffic never needed the pricier model.