Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen MT Turbo
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen MT Turbo 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
Palmyra Vision98% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
$0.005 in · $0 out / 1M Tokens 76%
Qwen Image Plus88% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.03 in · $0.03 out / image 78%
Imagen 484% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
Llama 3.1 8B77% CHEAPER
Meta
Same category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision77% CHEAPER
Meta
Same category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k76% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B73% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct73% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.044 in · $0.13 out / 1M Tokens 78%
Qwen Image MAX69% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.075 in · $0.075 out / image 78%
Qwen Turbo64% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 45 131K ctx 78%
GPT OSS 20B64% CHEAPER
Together AI
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 68%
Qwen 7B63% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.072 in · $0.144 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 78%
Ministral 3 3B59% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Ministral 359% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
Ministral59% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
Qwen3 8B59% CHEAPER
Fireworks AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 41K ctx 68%
Deepseek V457% CHEAPER
Fireworks AI
Same category
$0.104 in · $0.104 out / 1M Tokens 68%
Qwen3.5 9B54% CHEAPER
Together AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K 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.