One agent session
1M input tokens and 100K output tokens, no caching.
- Input1M x $0.12 = $0.12
- Output0.1M x $0.36 = $0.036
$0.156per session
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) - Closed weights
Qwen-MT-Lite pricing and specs
Qwen-MT-Lite is a closed-weights model from Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) that costs $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.36 per 1M output tokens on the first-party API, with a 16K-token context window.
Last verified from alibabacloud.com. All sources
- Input / 1M
- $0.12
- Output / 1M
- $0.36
- Context
- 16K tokens
- Weights
- Closed
Pricing per 1M tokens
| Item | Price / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.12 |
| Output | $0.36 |
Note: International (Singapore) list prices. Translation LLM covering 32 languages (no thinking, function calling or structured output). The console states context 16K and max output 8K; recorded as 16,384 / 8,192. The text generation page also lists a 16k context.
Specs
- Context window
- 16,384 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Release date
- Provider
- Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)
- API model id
qwen-mt-lite- Weights
- Closed weights
What Qwen-MT-Lite costs in practice
Worked from the standard list rates above, with the math shown so you can swap in your own token counts.
A chat app
10,000 requests a day at 2K input and 500 output tokens each.
- Input20M x $0.12 = $2.40
- Output5M x $0.36 = $1.80
$4.20per day
$126.00 per 30-day month
Compare with
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen-MT-Lite (this page) | $0.12 | $0.36 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.10 | $0.40 |
| GLM-4.7-FlashXZ.ai | $0.07 | $0.40 |
| GPT-4.1 nanoOpenAI | $0.10 | $0.40 |
| GPT-5 nanoOpenAI | $0.05 | $0.40 |
| Qwen-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.05 | $0.40 |
| Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.10 | $0.40 |
| Qwen3.8-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.15 | $0.47 |
| Qwen3.8-Omni-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.15 | $0.47 |
| Qwen-MT-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.16 | $0.49 |
| Qwen3.7-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.03 | $0.13 |
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- Terminal-Universe Turns Agent Traces Into Training EnvironmentsTerminal-Universe, Qwen's paper on rebuilding terminal-agent trajectories into reusable environments, and why agent teams should keep replayable workspaces.
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- Qwen 3.8 Max Ships: 2.4T MoE, 1M Context, $2/$6 per MTok, Open Weights Next WeekQwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active, a 1M context window and $2/$6 per million tokens on QwenCloud, with open weights promised next week.
- Qwen-UI-Agent Points at the Next GUI Agent RuntimeQwen-UI-Agent, Alibaba's GUI agent report, reads best as a product spec: mobile, desktop, browser, CLI and DeepSearch combined in one stateful agent runtime.
- $500 RL Fine-Tune of a 9B Open Model Beat GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 4.8 on Catalog ReviewA $500 GRPO fine-tune of Qwen 3.5 9B beat GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 4.8 on catalog review, hitting 97% accuracy at a fraction of the cost per listing.
FAQ
How much does Qwen-MT-Lite cost per million tokens?
Qwen-MT-Lite costs $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.36 per 1M output tokens on Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)'s first-party API, per alibabacloud.com on October 17, 2026.
What is Qwen-MT-Lite's context window?
Qwen-MT-Lite has a 16,384-token context window and returns up to 8,192 output tokens per response.
Are Qwen-MT-Lite's weights open?
No. Qwen-MT-Lite is a closed-weights model. You call it through Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)'s API as qwen-mt-lite.
When was Qwen-MT-Lite released?
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen-MT-Lite on November 19, 2025.
Sources
Last verified from alibabacloud.com.
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