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Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen Long

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen Long by Alibaba Cloud? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 18 options are meaningfully cheaper.

Category: LLM 131K context
Writer
Palmyra Vision97% CHEAPER
Writer
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Qwen Image Plus76% CHEAPER
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Google
Imagen 468% CHEAPER
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Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B48% CHEAPER
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Meta
Llama 3.1 8B56% CHEAPER
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Meta
Llama 3.2 11B Vision56% CHEAPER
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Groq
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k54% CHEAPER
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Qwen2.5 3B Instruct48% CHEAPER
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Qwen Image MAX40% CHEAPER
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Qwen Turbo30% CHEAPER
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Together AI
GPT OSS 20B30% CHEAPER
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen 7B28% CHEAPER
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Together AI
Qwen3.5 9B11% CHEAPER
Together AI
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Mistral AI
Ministral 3 3B20% CHEAPER
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Mistral AI
Ministral 320% CHEAPER
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Mistral AI
Ministral20% CHEAPER
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Fireworks AI
Qwen3 8B20% CHEAPER
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Fireworks AI
Deepseek V417% CHEAPER
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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.