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Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B API Pricing

Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.260 per 1M input tokens and $2.08 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-10-21 · source

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Price history
2026-08-23 → 2026-10-21 · 59 daily snapshots
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Community adoption
722K
HF downloads
640
Likes

High adoption means battle-tested weights, more fine-tunes/quants, and faster bug fixes. View on HuggingFace →

Pricing behavior
4 price changes in the last 59 daily snapshots
Changes roughly every 13 days
Last move (2026-09-10): input -10.3%

From our own daily snapshot archive — independent of provider announcements.

Intelligence & capability
via Artificial Analysis
17.7
Intelligence index · top 57% of 288 scored
43.3
Coding index
$0.715
Blended $/1M (3:1 in:out)

Intelligence measures reasoning/knowledge/coding benchmarks. A high score with a low blended price = value pick; check the value chart to see where this model lands.

Input / 1M tokens
$0.260
Output / 1M tokens
$2.08
Context window
262K
Max output
66K
Reasoning behavior
Mode: Off by default (opt-in)

Higher effort = deeper thinking = more reasoning tokens billed as output.

What would Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B cost you per month?

WorkloadRequests/moAvg tokens (in/out)Est. monthly cost
Light chatbot10,000800 / 400$10.40
Coding agent5,0008,000 / 2,000$31.20
RAG pipeline30,0004,000 / 500$62.40
Doc summarizer2,00020,000 / 1,000$14.56

Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.

About Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

The Qwen3.5 122B-A10B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. In terms of...

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B cost?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.260 per 1M input tokens and $2.08 per 1M output tokens. Verified 2026-10-21 — provider source.

What is the context window?

262K tokens, with up to 66K output tokens per response. That's roughly 328 pages of text in a single request.

Does it support prompt caching?

Prompt-caching pricing is not published for this model via OpenRouter.

What's a cheaper alternative?

ScaleDown: Summarize saves about 96% on a typical workload with comparable quality.

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