Qwen3.7 Max API Pricing
Alibaba · Mid-tier · Qwen · released 2026-05. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Qwen3.7 Max has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 65th cheapest of 108 Mid-tier models. Only one host, Alibaba, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. It holds the FinOps Friendly badge: top-40% Arena quality, top-30% Efficiency, not among the dearest 30%, and no stability flag.
- Input: $1.48 per 1M tokens
- Output: $4.42 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.29
- Context window: 1M
- Arena ELO: 1475 (as of 2026-09-25)
- Available on: Direct API, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
Qwen3.7 Max market position
On blended price ($3.54 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 40% of Mid-tier models: 65th cheapest of 108. Across every category it is cheaper than 26% of priced text models in the catalogue: 207th cheapest of 281. Its Arena ELO of 1475 ranks 13th of the 68 models that carry one, tied with one other, above 81% of them.
Qwen3.7 Max licence, size and capabilities
Qwen3.7 Max is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Qwen, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 1M context window once costs $1.48 in input tokens at list price.
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 the provider 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 | $343 – $443 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $494 – $649 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $1.9K – $2.0K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $1.1K – $1.2K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $1.2K – $1.3K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $437 – $487 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $583 – $605 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $1.7K – $2.2K |
Qwen3.7 Max 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 1 host. 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 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Alibaba is the only host with a published rate, $1.48 input / $4.42 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba (the price shown above) | $1.48 | $4.42 |
Qwen3.7 Max price history
Qwen3.7 Max has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $1.48 input / $4.42 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Qwen3.7 Max
- Next cheaper Mid-tier model: GLM 5.3 (Zhipu) at $3.50 blended, 1% less.
- Next more expensive: Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) at $3.80 blended, 7% more.
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against Qwen3.7 Max.
- Grok 4.20 (xAI) — $1.25 in / $2.50 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1475: 40% cheaper, same Arena ELO
- GLM 5.2 (Zhipu) — $0.65 in / $2.04 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1476: 54% cheaper, 1 ELO point higher
- Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — $1.50 in / $9.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1477: 91% more expensive, 2 ELO points higher
- GLM 5.3 (Zhipu) — $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1480: 1% cheaper, 5 ELO points higher
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: GLM 5.3 Flash (Zhipu), 89% cheaper, 1 ELO point lower, out of 22 models in that band.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google), 19% cheaper, 13 ELO points higher, out of 8 models in that price band.
Common questions about Qwen3.7 Max pricing
- How much does Qwen3.7 Max cost?
- Qwen3.7 Max costs $1.48 per million input tokens and $4.42 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Qwen3.7 Max offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.29/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Qwen3.7 Max cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Qwen3.7 Max costs about $443 at list prices.
- Has the price of Qwen3.7 Max changed?
- Qwen3.7 Max has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $1.48 input / $4.42 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
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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