Qwen-Plus vs Cydonia 24B V4.1

Qwen-Plus at $0.299 in and $0.897 out and Cydonia 24B V4.1 at $0.345 in and $0.575 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Qwen-Plus

Qwen

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.299 in · $0.897 out / 1M

1M context · released February 2025

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Cydonia 24B V4.1

Thedrummer

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.345 in · $0.575 out / 1M

131K context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.44¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen-Plus at $0.299 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Cydonia 24B V4.1 at $0.575 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen-Plus at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Qwen-Plus

0.1¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

0.1¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Qwen-Plus

0.22¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

0.22¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Qwen-Plus

5¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Qwen-Plus

1.1¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

1.3¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Qwen-Plus

$0.08

Cydonia 24B V4.1

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Qwen-Plus

Cydonia 24B V4.1

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Pricing

Qwen-Plus

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Input / 1M tokens

$0.299

$0.345

Output / 1M tokens

$0.897

$0.575

Cached input / 1M

$0.060

$0.172

Specs

Qwen-Plus

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Provider

Qwen

Thedrummer

Released

February 2025

September 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

33K

131K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2025-03-31

2024-04-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Qwen-Plus

Qwen

0.1¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Thedrummer

0.1¢

for this task

71% input · 29% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.2¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,470 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen-Plus has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Cydonia 24B V4.1 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.22¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Qwen-Plus pricing →Cydonia 24B V4.1 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Qwen-Plus or Cydonia 24B V4.1?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Cydonia 24B V4.1 at 0.22¢; Qwen-Plus at 0.22¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen-Plus — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run Qwen-Plus and Cydonia 24B V4.1 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.44¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.44¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.