Qwen3.5-27B API Pricing
Alibaba · Budget · Qwen · released 2026-03. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-11.
- Input: $0.20 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.56 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 262K
- Arena ELO: 1408 (as of 2026-09-02)
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0011 | $0.0011 | $107 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0016 | $0.0016 | $164 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.0038 | $0.0038 | $382 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.0033 | $0.0033 | $330 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.0037 | $0.0037 | $371 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0012 | $0.0012 | $123 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0015 | $0.0015 | $148 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.0059 | $0.0059 | $585 |
Qwen3.5-27B pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 6 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-11 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.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba (the price shown above) | $0.20 | $1.56 |
| SiliconFlow — fp8 | $0.25 | $2.00 |
| AtlasCloud — fp8 | $0.27 | $2.16 |
| Phala | $0.30 | $2.40 |
| Novita — bf16 | $0.30 | $2.40 |
| DeepInfra — fp8 | $0.26 | $2.60 |
Models comparable to Qwen3.5-27B
The nearest Budget models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Alibaba) — $0.31 in / $1.25 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1395
- DeepSeek V3.2 (DeepSeek) — $0.27 in / $0.40 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1425
- MiniMax M2.5 (MiniMax) — $0.27 in / $1.08 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1391
- GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) — $0.40 in / $1.60 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1382
Common questions about Qwen3.5-27B pricing
- How much does Qwen3.5-27B cost?
- Qwen3.5-27B costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.56 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Qwen3.5-27B offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Qwen3.5-27B cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Qwen3.5-27B costs about $107 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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