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Alibaba (Qwen), proprietary

Qwen Plus

Qwen Plus by Alibaba (Qwen) ranks 210th of 354 ranked models on the Noometry Index as of October 2026, with a score of 37.1. Its strongest category is reasoning, where it ranks 107th. API pricing starts at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.

Last verified

Noometry rank
#210 of 354
Index score
37.1
Evidence
Confirmed 20 results
Provider
Alibaba (Qwen)
Released
January 25, 2024
Weights
Proprietary
Reasoning
Yes
Context window
1M
Max output
33K
Input price
$0.40 / M
Output price
$1.20 / M
Blended price
$0.60 / M
Output speed
37 tokens/s Kagi
Value
#88 of 219
Knowledge cutoff
April 2024
Input
text

Category scores

Each category score combines every public result we have in that category.

  1. Coding 38.9
  2. Reasoning 28.4
  3. Math 23.3
  4. Knowledge 27.4
  5. Multilingual 45.1
  6. Instruction Following 68.8
  7. Long Context 40.3
  8. Writing & Preference 52.2
CategoryScoreRankResults
Coding38.9#1671
Reasoning28.4#1074
Math23.3#2713
Knowledge27.4#2512
Multilingual45.1#1751
Instruction Following68.8#1811
Long Context40.3#1581
Writing & Preference52.2#1763

Strengths and weaknesses

Categories where Qwen Plus places highest and lowest among the models ranked in each, with its score against that category's median.

Strongest categories

CategoryScorevs medianRank
Reasoning28.4+4.8#107 of 350, top 31%
Coding38.9+0.2#167 of 340, top 50%
Long Context40.3−0.7#158 of 296, top 54%

Weakest categories

CategoryScorevs medianRank
Math23.3−13.3#271 of 327, top 83%
Knowledge27.4−9.9#251 of 314, top 80%
Instruction Following68.8−2.5#181 of 305, top 60%

Closest competitors

The models ranked just above and below Qwen Plus. When scores are this close, price and speed are often the better way to choose.

ModelRankScoreBlended $/MSpeed
Gemma 3n E4b IT#20637.3—13Compare
Step 3.7 Flash#20737.3$0.42—Compare
GPT-4.5#20837.2——Compare
Yi-Lightning#20937.1——Compare
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite#21137.0$0.18172Compare
o3-mini#21236.7$1.93—Compare
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1#21336.7——Compare
Granite 4.0 H Small#21436.5——Compare

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Benchmark results

Every published result we track, with its source. Bold rows are the ones used for ranking; where several exist we prefer independent runs over self-reported numbers.

Coding

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Coding1328#180 of 294, top 62%LMArena2026-10-08

Reasoning

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.3%#36 of 99, top 37%Kagi LLM Benchmark
LMArena Hard Prompts1317#180 of 297, top 61%LMArena2026-10-08
DTBench81.1%#70 of 151, top 47%Epoch AI
LMCA24%#88 of 125, top 71%Epoch AI

Math

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202517.8%#127 of 173, top 74%Epoch AI2025-04-07
LMArena Math1326#169 of 285, top 60%LMArena2026-10-08
MATH Level 565.3%#34 of 79, top 44%Epoch AI2025-04-07
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%#58 of 68, top 86%Epoch AI2025-05-14

Knowledge

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
GPQA Diamond48.1%#132 of 186, top 71%Epoch AI2025-04-07
LMArena Expert1328#166 of 273, top 61%LMArena2026-10-08

Multilingual

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Non-English1310#175 of 297, top 59%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Chinese1347#168 of 285, top 59%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Japanese1251#140 of 211, top 67%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Russian1323#167 of 283, top 60%LMArena2026-10-08

Instruction Following

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Instruction Following1303#177 of 298, top 60%LMArena2026-10-08

Long Context

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Longer Query1324#169 of 291, top 59%LMArena2026-10-08

Writing & Preference

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Text1326#176 of 297, top 60%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Creative Writing1293#171 of 295, top 58%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Multi-Turn1336#167 of 295, top 57%LMArena2026-10-08

API pricing by provider

RouteInput $/MOutput $/MCached input $/MChecked
alibaba$0.40$1.20—2026-10-10
openrouter$0.26$0.78$0.0522026-10-10

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Frequently asked questions

How good is Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus by Alibaba (Qwen) ranks 210th of 354 ranked models on the Noometry Index as of October 2026, with a score of 37.1. Its strongest category is reasoning, where it ranks 107th. API pricing starts at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.

How much does Qwen Plus cost?

Qwen Plus costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on Alibaba (Qwen)'s own API.

What is Qwen Plus's context window?

Qwen Plus accepts up to 1M tokens of input and can write up to 33K tokens in one response.

Is Qwen Plus open source?

No. Qwen Plus is proprietary and available only through Alibaba (Qwen)'s API and partner platforms.

How fast is Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus generated about 37 output tokens per second in the Kagi LLM Benchmark's timed runs. Speed varies by provider, load and reasoning effort.

What are Qwen Plus's strengths and weaknesses?

Relative to other ranked models, Qwen Plus places best in reasoning, coding, long context and lowest in math, knowledge, instruction following.

What is Qwen Plus best at?

Its best category is reasoning, where it ranks 107th on Noometry.