Qwen3-Coder-Plus
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
- Family
- Qwen3-Coder
- Released
- 2025-09-23
- Context
- 1m
- Specialization
- code
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
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).
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 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | $1.00 | $5.00 | - | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.00 | $5.00 | read $0.200 | Serverless |
Capabilities
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.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS