Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) sits in the Legacy tier on our leaderboard, ranked #285 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.260 input and $0.780 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) has no benchmark data, a 1M token context window, and competitive pricing, but without measured performance it cannot be reliably assessed for business use.
Assessed May 5, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.
Capabilities
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28:thinking
|
| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | September 8, 2025 |
| Context Length | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.26 | $0.000260 |
| Output | $0.78 | $0.000780 |
Live Performance
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Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: May 5, 2026 11:06 am