Analysis Summary
This Qwen3.5 Plus release supports text, image, and video input with tool use and function calling, backed by a million-token context window and pricing near $0.30 input and $1.80 output per million tokens.
Lacking verified benchmark data, its practical reasoning and coding strength are unproven, so it's best positioned for exploratory or low-risk automation rather than mission-critical workflows.
A reasonable low-cost option to trial for bulk content or retrieval tasks where budget outweighs certainty.
Assessed July 29, 2026
Editorial notes
Qwen3.5 Plus offers multimodal input and a 1M context window at low cost, but has no published benchmark results confirming reasoning quality.
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DFO Verdict
Qwen3.5 Plus offers multimodal input and a 1M context window at low cost, but has no published benchmark results confirming reasoning quality.
How Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 compares
Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $0.30 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 47% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
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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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
| Output | $1.80 | $0.001800 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Talk to our teamAbout Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Qwen3.5 Plus (April 2026) is a large-scale multimodal language model from Alibaba. It accepts text, image, and video input and produces text output, with a 1M token context window. This..
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Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
How much does Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 cost?
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.80 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20?
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
What can Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 do?
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20?
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 is developed by Qwen and was released on April 27, 2026.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: August 6, 2026 8:38 pm