Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at $0.241 in and $2.19 out and Qwen3.7 Plus at $0.368 in and $1.47 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen

0.3¢

for a client proposal

$0.241 in · $2.19 out / 1M

131K context · released September 2025

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Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen

0.3¢

for a client proposal

$0.368 in · $1.47 out / 1M

1M context · released 2 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.6¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at $0.241 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Qwen3.7 Plus at $1.47 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3.7 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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

0.16¢

Qwen3.7 Plus

0.15¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

0.3¢

Qwen3.7 Plus

0.3¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3.7 Plus

$0.06

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1.1¢

Qwen3.7 Plus

1.4¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3.7 Plus

$0.10

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen3.7 Plus

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen3.7 Plus

Input / 1M tokens

$0.241

$0.368

Output / 1M tokens

$2.19

$1.47

Cached input / 1M

$0.115

$0.074

Specs

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen3.7 Plus

Provider

Qwen

Released

September 2025

2 months ago

Context window

131K

Max output

33K

131K

Input

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2025-03-31

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen

0.16¢

for this task

31% input · 69% output

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Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen

0.15¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.3¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,640 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3.7 Plus has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.3¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Qwen3.7 Plus shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

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 →

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct pricing →Qwen3.7 Plus pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct or Qwen3.7 Plus?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 0.3¢; Qwen3.7 Plus at 0.3¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3.7 Plus — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Qwen3.7 Plus 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 0.6¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.6¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.