LLM Reference

Qwen3-Coder-Plus

Released
2025-09-23
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 31d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

Qwen3-Coder-Plus is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
  • Workloads that can use a 1m context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
Released
2025-09-23
Context
1m
Specialization
code
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$5.00
Input / 1M
$1.00

Cheapest of 2 routes · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS

About

Qwen3-Coder-Plus is Alibaba's premium API-only code generation model in the Qwen3-Coder family, released September 23, 2025 via DashScope (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio). It is not an open-weight model. Supports 1 million token context with up to 65,536 output tokens. Built for autonomous programming and agentic workflows with strong coding agent capabilities: tool invocation, environment interaction, multi-turn context management, and context cache for repetitive prefixes. Pricing is tiered by context length: input $1-$6 per 1M tokens, output $5-$60 per 1M tokens. Available via DashScope API (qwen3-coder-plus or versioned alias qwen3-coder-plus-2025-09-23) and Vercel AI Gateway (alibaba/qwen3-coder-plus).

Qwen3-Coder-Plus is a proprietary model in the Qwen3-Coder family. The structured metadata tracks a 1m-token context window, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS and Vercel AI Gateway, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1 input and $5 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Qwen3-Coder-Plus yet.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS$1.00$5.00-
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway$1.00$5.00read $0.200
Serverless

Capabilities

Function CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Qwen3-Coder-Plus?

Qwen3-Coder-Plus has a context window of 1m tokens.

How much does Qwen3-Coder-Plus cost?

Qwen3-Coder-Plus pricing ranges from $1.00/1M to $1/1M input tokens depending on the provider.

When was Qwen3-Coder-Plus released?

Qwen3-Coder-Plus was released on 2025-09-23.

Which providers offer Qwen3-Coder-Plus?

Qwen3-Coder-Plus is available from 2 providers: Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS, Vercel AI Gateway.