Alibaba
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.5-Plus, Undercutting Gemini 3 Pro on Cost - Chinese tech giant says new open-source AI model rivals Google’s flagship system while charging a fraction of the API price
Model details
Qwen3.5 Plus represents a frontier-class vision-language model designed for the agentic AI era, combining a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms with sparse mixture-of-experts models. This architectural blend is engineered to achieve higher inference efficiency while supporting native understanding across text, images, and video inputs. The model is built to deliver adaptive reasoning at industrial scale, positioning it as a robust solution for complex, multi-step tasks rather than simple single-turn queries.
Positioned as a cost-effective alternative to leading proprietary systems, Qwen3.5 Plus aims to rival flagship competitors while charging a fraction of their API prices. The model serves a wide range of practical applications including question answering, conversational chat, creative writing, translation, summarization, and coding assistance. Its vision-language capabilities combined with reasoning and tool-calling support make it suitable for building downstream AI applications through open AI-compatible APIs, enabling developers to power intelligent apps across diverse use cases.
Alibaba
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.5-Plus, Undercutting Gemini 3 Pro on Cost - Chinese tech giant says new open-source AI model rivals Google’s flagship system while charging a fraction of the API price
Alibaba
The Qwen3.5 native vision-language series Plus models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms with sparse mixture-of-experts models, achieving higher inference efficiency. $0.26 per million input tokens, $1.56 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum outp