Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728

Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728

qwen · Released Sep 8, 2025
Intelligence #264 / 699
35.3 our score
Speed
Not reported
Input Price #354 / 701
$0.260 per 1M tokens
Output Price #328 / 701
$0.780 per 1M tokens
Context #97 / 701
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen Plus 0728 is a text model designed for broad API use, with a 1M token context window, tool use, and function calling. The context size supports large-scale document analysis, retrieval workflows, and assistants that need to coordinate information across extensive inputs.

This specific variant has no supplied benchmark data, so its general reasoning, coding, and instruction-following quality should be validated rather than assumed. Lower pricing than the thinking version improves its role in volume workloads, but complex client-facing tasks still need review and fallback handling. It is a sensible candidate for structured automation pilots where long context and tool integration matter more than proven frontier performance.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Qwen Plus 0728 combines a 1M token context window, tool use, function calling, and lower pricing than its thinking variant, but benchmark evidence for this specific model is unavailable.

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DFO Verdict

Qwen Plus 0728 combines a 1M token context window, tool use, function calling, and lower pricing than its thinking variant, but benchmark evidence for this specific model is unavailable.

#264 of 699 overall Up 73 this week

How Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 compares

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $0.26 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 50% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 62% of models #264
Price: cheaper than 50% of models #354
Context: larger than 86% of models #97
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 $0.26 in $0.78 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 1M

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence0Technical0Value8.3Content5.8
Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.26 $0.000260
Output $0.78 $0.000780

What would Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728

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.

Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728

How much does Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 cost?

Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 costs $0.26 per million input tokens and $0.78 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728?

Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).

What can Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 do?

Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 supports tool use and function calling.

Who created Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728?

Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 is developed by Qwen and was released on September 8, 2025.

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