Qwen3 14B API pricing
Alibaba · Budget price tier · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-04. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-11-12.
A support ticket workload of 100K requests a month costs $30.00 on Qwen3 14B; the next cheaper model in the Budget price tier for this workload, Gemma 3 27B, does it for $29.50. The price we quote for Qwen3 14B has changed 6 times since 2026-08-15, most recently on 2026-11-12 when the quoted host changed (+10.9%); it is now the 45th cheapest of 160 models in the Budget price tier. Buying from NextBit rather than at the price we quote lowers the token price by about 10%, for a quantized int4 build. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.12 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.24 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: Not published
- Context window: 41K tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.204 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 72% of models in the Budget price tier: 45th cheapest of 160. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 85% of priced text models in the catalogue: 45th cheapest of 303. No Arena score has been published for Qwen3 14B, so this page does not rank it on quality and OptimNow's quality bars do not apply to it. 77 of the 160 models we list in the Budget price tier carry one. An unranked model is unmeasured, not poor: the benchmark needs votes, and a recent release has not had time to collect them.
Licence, size and capabilities
Qwen3 14B is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its published size is 14B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Agents. Filling its 41K context window once costs $0.00492 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token: the model maker, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent host. One model, several hosts, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price we quote elsewhere on this page is marked. We quote one host's rate so that models stay comparable; it is not a recommendation to buy there.
Cheapest host: NextBit at $0.10 input / $0.22 output per 1M tokens, 10% below the price we quote on the blended price (30% input, 70% output). It serves a quantized int4 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. A support ticket workload at 100K requests a month costs $26.00 there against $30.00 at the price we quote, a difference of $4.00 a month. The dearest, DeepInfra, charges 1.1x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Precision |
|---|---|---|---|
| NextBit | $0.10 | $0.22 | int4 |
| DeepInfra (price we quote) | $0.12 | $0.24 | fp8 |
List prices as published on 2026-11-12, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where Alibaba publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $30 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $43 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $149 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $73 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $84 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $32 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $41 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $144 |
Price history
Qwen3 14B has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.12 input / $0.24 output per 1M tokens. The price we quote has changed 6 times since then, 4 of them a change of quoted host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-11-12, was +10.9% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.12 input / $0.24 output (quoted host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is back where it started on 2026-08-15.
| Date | Old price (in / out) | New price (in / out) | Blended change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-12 | $0.10 / $0.22 | $0.12 / $0.24 | +10.9% (quoted host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-11-10 | $0.12 / $0.24 | $0.10 / $0.22 | -9.8% (quoted host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-09-14 | $0.2275 / $0.91 | $0.12 / $0.24 | -71.1% (quoted host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-09-08 | $0.12 / $0.24 | $0.2275 / $0.91 | +245.7% (quoted host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-08-22 | $0.2275 / $0.91 | $0.12 / $0.24 | -71.1% |
1 earlier change is not listed.
Alternatives to Qwen3 14B
Qwen3 14B carries no Arena score, so this page cannot place it against models of comparable quality. The alternatives below are its nearest neighbours on price in the Budget price tier.
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: Qwen3.5-Flash (Alibaba) at $0.2015 blended, 1% less.
- Next more expensive: Qwen3 32B (Alibaba) at $0.22 blended, 8% more.
Other models from Alibaba
The 8 nearest to Qwen3 14B in price, of 39 other Alibaba models in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Qwen3.5-9B: $0.068 / $0.10
- Qwen3.7 Flash: $0.03 / $0.13
- Qwen3.5-Flash: $0.065 / $0.26
- Qwen3 32B: $0.08 / $0.28
- Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507: $0.10 / $0.30
- Qwen3.8 Flash: $0.15 / $0.47
- Qwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.15 / $0.47
- Qwen3 30B A3B: $0.12 / $0.50
All 40 Alibaba models and prices
Common questions about Qwen3 14B pricing
- How much does Qwen3 14B cost?
- Qwen3 14B costs $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.24 per 1M output tokens at DeepInfra, the host whose rate we quote. DeepInfra serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Prices as listed on 2026-11-12.
- Which host is cheapest for Qwen3 14B?
- Cheapest host: NextBit at $0.10 input / $0.22 output per 1M tokens, 10% below the price we quote on the blended price (30% input, 70% output). It serves a quantized int4 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. A support ticket workload at 100K requests a month costs $26.00 there against $30.00 at the price we quote, a difference of $4.00 a month. The dearest, DeepInfra, charges 1.1x the cheapest. Host rates as listed on 2026-11-12.
- Does Qwen3 14B offer batch or cached pricing?
- No. Neither a batch rate nor a prompt-cache rate is published for Qwen3 14B as of 2026-11-12.
- What would Qwen3 14B cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $30 on Qwen3 14B at the list price quoted on 2026-11-12.
- Can Qwen3 14B be self-hosted?
- Yes. Qwen3 14B is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token.
- Has the price of Qwen3 14B changed?
- Qwen3 14B has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.12 input / $0.24 output per 1M tokens. The price we quote has changed 6 times since then, 4 of them a change of quoted host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-11-12, was +10.9% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.12 input / $0.24 output (quoted host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is back where it started on 2026-08-15.
Its weights are published, which changes what you may run yourself: the cost gap between open weights and proprietary APIs.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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