Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen 7B
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen 7B by Alibaba Cloud? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 8 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM 131K context
Palmyra Vision96% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
$0.005 in · $0 out / 1M Tokens 76%
Qwen Image Plus67% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.03 in · $0.03 out / image 78%
Imagen 456% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B27% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision39% CHEAPER
Meta
More modalitiesSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.1 8B39% CHEAPER
Meta
Same category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k36% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct27% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.044 in · $0.13 out / 1M Tokens 78%
Qwen3.5 9B
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
GPT-5.4 Nano
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 98%
Claude 3 Haiku
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 33 200K ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.6 in · $3.6 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.8 in · $4 out / 1M Tokens 49 200K ctx 98%
Claude 4.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1 in · $5 out / 1M Tokens 200K ctx 98%
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1.75 in · $14 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$3.5 in · $10.5 out / 1M Tokens 58 2.1M ctx 98%
Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.