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Qwen3.5-Flash

The low-cost tier of Alibaba's Qwen3.5 family, using a Gated DeltaNet plus MoE architecture for efficient multimodal processing.

Context
1M tokens
Max output
66K
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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD
Input
$0.10 /1M
Output
$0.40 /1M
Cheapest
$0.09 / $0.368 via EmpirioLabs AI
Hosted by
EmpirioLabs AI Alibaba Cloud 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Qwen3.5-Flash, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Every provider serving Qwen3.5-Flash, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider Input /1M Output /1M Cached input /1M Cost at 10M in + 2M out Link
EmpirioLabs AI logo EmpirioLabs AI Cheapest $0.09 $0.368 $1.64 Visit website
Alibaba Cloud logo Alibaba Cloud Creator $0.10 $0.40 $0.01 $1.80 Visit website

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 Qwen3.5-Flash by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3.5-Flash per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model Blended /1M Input /1M Output /1M Context Cutoff vs Qwen3.5-Flash
Z.AI GLM-5.3-Flash Z.AI $0.1042 $0.075 $0.25 1M −24%
OpenAI GPT-5 Nano OpenAI $0.1083 $0.05 $0.40 400K May 2024 −21%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Alibaba Cloud $0.124 $0.057 $0.459 262K −9%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Alibaba Cloud $0.1283 $0.07 $0.42 262K −6%
Google Cloud Gemma 3 27B Instruct Google Cloud $0.1333 $0.10 $0.30 128K Aug 2024 −2%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.5-Flash This model Alibaba Cloud $0.1363 $0.09 $0.368 1M
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.8-Flash Alibaba Cloud $0.1403 $0.0935 $0.374 1M +3%
Google Cloud Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google Cloud $0.15 $0.10 $0.40 1M Jan 2025 +10%
Mistral Ministral 3 8B Mistral $0.15 $0.15 $0.15 256K +10%
Meta Llama 3.2 11B Vision Meta $0.1535 $0.049 $0.676 128K Dec 2023 +13%
Xiaomi MiMo MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi MiMo $0.1633 $0.14 $0.28 1M +20%

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.

Capabilities

What Qwen3.5-Flash accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

  • Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
  • Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
  • Video Accepts video as input.
  • Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
  • Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
  • Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
  • Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
  • Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
  • MCP Connect to services via Model Context Protocol.

Common questions

What is Qwen3.5-Flash good for?

High-volume text, image and video work with Alibaba's built-in tools. Alibaba built it as the low-cost tier of the Qwen3.5 family.

When is Qwen3.5-Flash not a good fit?

Self-hosting: the weights are closed, though its open backbone Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is available under Apache 2.0. No audio input or image output.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3.5-Flash?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.09 / $0.368 per 1M tokens via EmpirioLabs AI; the creator's list price is $0.10 / $0.40.

How does Qwen3.5-Flash compare with Qwen3.6-Flash?

Alibaba says Qwen3.6-Flash beats Qwen3.5-Flash by a wide margin at agentic coding and at math and code reasoning, and is much better at locating and detecting objects in images. Same 1M-token context and text, image and video input. Qwen3.5-Flash lists at 60% less per 1M input tokens and 73% less per 1M output tokens than Qwen3.6-Flash.

Can I self-host Qwen3.5-Flash?

No. Alibaba Cloud does not publish the weights; Qwen3.5-Flash is available only through hosted APIs.

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