Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct API Pricing — $0.210 Input / $1.90 Output per 1M Tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by Qwen / Alibaba — $0.210 input / $1.90 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 262K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens
$0.210
Output / 1M tokens
$1.90
Provider
Qwen / Alibaba
Context window
262K tokens
Via
OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage Daily Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)$0.248$7.44
Small app (1K/day)$1.16$34.80
Mid-scale (10K/day)$13.70$411.00
Large scale (100K/day)$295.00$8850.00
Model ID: qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

About Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is an LLM developed by Qwen / Alibaba. Input costs $0.210 per million tokens and output costs $1.90 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 262K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

  • Input tokens: $0.210 per 1 million tokens
  • Output tokens: $1.90 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

  • Daily cost: $1.1600
  • Monthly cost: $34.800

Accessing Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct via OpenRouter

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