What is Qwen-MT-Plus good for?

Machine translation of formal, academic and technical documents, the heavier of Alibaba's two Qwen-MT tiers.

When is Qwen-MT-Plus not a good fit?

Anything beyond translation: Alibaba says it handles single-turn translation only. Closed weights, so no self-hosting.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen-MT-Plus?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.25 / $0.75 per 1M tokens via Novita; the creator's list price is $2.46 / $7.37.

Can I self-host Qwen-MT-Plus?

No. Alibaba Cloud does not publish the weights; Qwen-MT-Plus is available only through hosted APIs.

Qwen-MT-Plus

Alibaba's closed-weight machine translation model, fine-tuned from Qwen3 and updated through 2025, covering many languages with terminology intervention and translation memory.

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List price via Alibaba Cloud

Input: $2.46 / 1M tokens
Output: $7.37 / 1M tokens

Cheapest: $0.25 / $0.75 per 1M tokens via Novita

2 providers

Key Specifications

Context window: 16K tokens
Max output: 8K tokens
Inputs: Text

Hosted API pricing

Input tokens M Output tokens M

Provider	Input / 1M tokens	Output / 1M tokens	Cost at 10M in + 2M out
Novita Cheapest	$0.25	$0.75	$4.00	View
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$2.46	$7.37	$39.34	View

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen-MT-Plus by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Model	Blended / 1M	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen-MT-Plus
Qwen3-235B-A22B FP8 Alibaba Cloud	$0.30	$0.20	$0.80	33K		−10%
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba Cloud	$0.3133	$0.17	$1.03	262K		−6%
MiniMax-M3 MiniMax	$0.3167	$0.20	$0.90	1M		−5%
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.325	$0.15	$1.20	262K		−2%
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking Alibaba Cloud	$0.325	$0.15	$1.20	262K		−2%
Qwen-MT-Plus This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.3333	$0.25	$0.75	16K
Qwen2.5-VL-72B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.3333	$0.25	$0.75	33K		0%
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.3417	$0.25	$0.80	131K		+3%
Qwen3.6-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.35	$0.30	$0.60	262K		+5%
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	$0.3667	$0.20	$1.20	1M	Feb 2026	+10%
GPT-5.4 Nano OpenAI	$0.375	$0.20	$1.25	400K	Aug 2025	+13%

Prices are USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Qwen-MT-Plus good for?: Machine translation of formal, academic and technical documents, the heavier of Alibaba's two Qwen-MT tiers.
When is Qwen-MT-Plus not a good fit?: Anything beyond translation: Alibaba says it handles single-turn translation only. Closed weights, so no self-hosting.
What is the cheapest way to run Qwen-MT-Plus?: The cheapest hosted rate is $0.25 / $0.75 per 1M tokens via Novita; the creator's list price is $2.46 / $7.37.
Can I self-host Qwen-MT-Plus?: No. Alibaba Cloud does not publish the weights; Qwen-MT-Plus is available only through hosted APIs.

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Model	Context	Input / 1M	Output / 1M
Qwen2.5-VL-72B Instruct Open weights	33K	$0.25	$0.75
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Instruct Open weights	262K	$0.15	$1.20
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking Open weights	262K	$0.15	$1.20
Qwen3.6-27B Open weights	262K	$0.30	$0.60
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Open weights	262K	$0.17	$1.03
Qwen2.5-7B Instruct Open weights	33K	$0.30	$0.30
Qwen3-235B-A22B FP8 Open weights	33K	$0.20	$0.80
Qwen2.5-72B Instruct Open weights	33K	$0.38	$0.40