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MODEL PROOF # Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen · 16 Feb 2026 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.878** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out Serving precision differs between offers. [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) · Δ score 53 points · 38% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/) is a further stored option with these losses: no video input Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,438 ± 3.13 · 88,660 votes Context window 262.14K Maximum output 81.92K Input modalities text, image, video Output modalities text Published input price $0.390 / 1M tokens Published output price $2.34 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from Alibaba: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $0.390 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $2.34 /M | | Cached input | Unknown /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.450/M from DeepInfra. 10 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Alibaba alibaba Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.390 | Output $2.34 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.87% | | Seller DeepInfra deepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.220 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 81,920 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.450 | Output $3.00 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.62% | | Seller Parasail parasail/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.300 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.88% | Input $0.500 | Output $3.60 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.84% | | Seller AtlasCloud atlas-cloud/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.550 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.07% | Input $0.550 | Output $3.50 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 87.24% | | Seller DigitalOcean digitalocean Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.110 Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 117,964 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.13% | Input $0.550 | Output $3.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 96.62% | | Seller Phala phala Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.225 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.76% | Input $0.550 | Output $3.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.59% | | Seller GMICloud gmicloud/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.600 | Output $3.60 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 78.05% | | Seller StreamLake streamlake Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.120 Context limit 256,000 tokens Output limit 64,000 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.600 | Output $3.60 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 95.90% | | Seller Novita novita Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.18% | Input $0.600 | Output $3.60 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.08% | | Seller Venice venice Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 128,000 tokens Output limit 32,768 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.750 | Output $4.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 86.05% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1438 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. #### Best rankings by task - SVG #49 1139 - 3D #55 1169 - Code categories #58 1184 - Websites #59 1197 - Data visualisation #60 1182 - Game development #67 1153 - UI components #68 1170 Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list. ### Capability | Context window | 262K | | --- | --- | | Max output | 81K | | Input modes | text, image, video | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | optional | | Open weights | Unknown | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | verified | The Qwen3.5 series 397B-A17B 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. It delivers... ## Questions this page answers What does Qwen3.5 397B A17B cost? $0.390/M in, $2.34/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does Qwen3.5 397B A17B have an independent quality score? Qwen3.5 397B A17B has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats Qwen3.5 397B A17B? MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3.5 397B A17B? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. Is the cheapest Qwen3.5 397B A17B endpoint the same product? Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.450/M from DeepInfra. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Claude Sonnet 4.5](/models/anthropic__claude-sonnet-4.5/) - Same vendor [Qwen3.8 27B](/models/qwen__qwen3.8-27b/) - Qwen models [Qwen](/providers/qwen/) - Where this model appears [wire](/wire/) - Nearby on the capability axis [GLM 5V Turbo](/models/z-ai__glm-5v-turbo/) - Same vendor [Qwen3.6 Max Preview](/models/qwen__qwen3.6-max-preview/) - Where this model appears [spreads](/spreads/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3.6 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.6-plus/) - Same vendor [Qwen3.7 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.7-plus/) - Where this model appears [traps](/traps/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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