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# Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash: $0.065/M in, $0.260/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements.

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MODEL PROOF

# Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen · 25 Feb 2026

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

TRADE-OFF

## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability losses.

 **$0.114** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

[DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash/) · Δ score 35.1 points · 1% lower measured price

 - no image, 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 1,397 ± 3.65 · 61,669 votes
 Context window 1M
 Maximum output 65.54K
 Input modalities text, image, video
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $0.065 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $0.260 / 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 | $0.065 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.260 /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.

 1 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 1,000,000 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.62% | Input $0.065 | Output $0.260 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.82% |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1397 default |
| --- | --- |

LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.

### Capability

| Context window | 1M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 65K |
| 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 native vision-language Flash models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. Compared to the...

## Questions this page answers

 What does Qwen3.5-Flash cost?

$0.065/M in, $0.260/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Qwen3.5-Flash have an independent quality score?

Qwen3.5-Flash has an LMArena score in this catalogue.

 What beats Qwen3.5-Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability trade-offs.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3.5-Flash?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

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## Related

 - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [Grok 4.7](/models/x-ai__grok-4.7/)
- Same vendor [Qwen3.5-35B-A3B](/models/qwen__qwen3.5-35b-a3b/)
- Qwen models [Qwen](/providers/qwen/)
- Where this model appears [wire](/wire/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [Grok 4.3](/models/x-ai__grok-4.3/)
- Same vendor [Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking](/models/qwen__qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking/)
- Where this model appears [significance](/significance/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [Claude Haiku 4.5](/models/anthropic__claude-haiku-4.5/)
- Same vendor [Qwen3.5-27B](/models/qwen__qwen3.5-27b/)
- Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/)

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