Qwen3 Coder Flash

Alibaba Qwen chatcodetool_use Long

API ID: qwen/qwen3-coder-flash

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Input Price
$0.20
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.97
/1M tokens

About Qwen3 Coder Flash

Qwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and environment interaction, combining coding proficiency with versatile general-purpose abilities.

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Price Ranking
#845 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
1.0M
Max Output
66k
Release Date
2025-09-17
Capabilities
chat code tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.38
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$3.28
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$11.70
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$16.09
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Qwen3 Coder Flash API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3-coder-flash",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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