Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B API Pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) · context window 262K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B sits on price
At $1.00 per million output tokens, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is a mid tier model — 2.1× cheaper than the median output price of $2.08, which puts it cheaper than 69% and pricier than 31% of the models we track. It sits 25th cheapest of the 53 Alibaba (Qwen) models we track. Output costs 3.3× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
Cached input is 67% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 37% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a mid-priced model — a $1.00/1M 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. | $0.0029 | $43.50 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0014 | $420 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0003 | $9.00 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B with caching and batch options.
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B price history
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B's price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 2, 2026 — 44 days of stability in a market where 78 of the 334 models we track have repriced over the same period, including 17 of Alibaba (Qwen)'s own 53 models.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B vs DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (DeepSeek) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.03 less 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.
See DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B API cost?
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.1 per million (67% cheaper). That works out to roughly 1,000,000 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.0029 per request and $43.50 per month on Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B. Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B's 262K context window?
Sending 262K of input in a single request costs $0.0786 at $0.3 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.0262 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B worth the price?
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B sits in the middle of the market (25 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.