Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen Turbo
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen Turbo by Alibaba Cloud? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 7 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM Intelligence 45 131K context
Palmyra Vision96% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
$0.005 in · $0 out / 1M Tokens 76%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision37% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueMore modalitiesSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Qwen Image Plus66% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.03 in · $0.03 out / image 78%
Llama 3.1 8B37% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
o3
OpenAI
Smarter (78 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 78 200K ctx 82%
Imagen 454% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google
Smarter (76 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1.25 in · $10 out / 1M Tokens 76 1.0M ctx 80%
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B25% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
o4 Mini
OpenAI
Smarter (70 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 70 200K ctx 82%
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google
Smarter (68 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.3 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 68 1.0M ctx 80%
o1
OpenAI
Smarter (71 vs 45)Larger contextSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 71 200K ctx 82%
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Smarter (62 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$3 in · $15 out / 1M Tokens 62 200K ctx 98%
o3-mini
OpenAI
Smarter (66 vs 45)Larger contextSame category
$1.1 in · $4.4 out / 1M Tokens 66 200K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google
Smarter (58 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$3.5 in · $10.5 out / 1M Tokens 58 2.1M ctx 98%
Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Smarter (58 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$15 in · $75 out / 1M Tokens 58 200K ctx 98%
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k34% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Gemini 2.0 Flash
Google
Smarter (56 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 56 1.0M ctx 80%
GPT 4.1 Mini
OpenAI
Smarter (53 vs 45)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 53 1.0M ctx 82%
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.