Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen3.5 Plus
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen3.5 Plus 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
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k94% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B93% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Llama 3.1 8B94% CHEAPER
Meta
Same category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision94% CHEAPER
Meta
Same category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Imagen 496% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
Qwen Image Plus97% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.03 in · $0.03 out / image 78%
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct93% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.044 in · $0.13 out / 1M Tokens 78%
Qwen Image MAX92% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.075 in · $0.075 out / image 78%
Qwen Turbo90% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 45 131K ctx 78%
Qwen 7B90% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.072 in · $0.144 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 78%
Palmyra Vision100% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
$0.005 in · $0 out / 1M Tokens 76%
Ministral 3 3B89% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
GPT OSS 20B90% CHEAPER
Together AI
Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 68%
Ministral 389% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
Ministral89% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
Qwen3.5 9B88% CHEAPER
Together AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Qwen3 8B89% CHEAPER
Fireworks AI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 41K ctx 68%
Deepseek V488% CHEAPER
Fireworks AI
Same category
$0.104 in · $0.104 out / 1M Tokens 68%
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.