Qwen3 Coder Flash
Qwen · released Sep 17, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we have no record of published weights
Our take
Written Sep 1, 2026Qwen3 Coder Flash is a proprietary coding model from Alibaba that can handle up to one million tokens in a single request. It is built for repository-scale code review where context length matters more than measured quality scores, with a flat output rate across every provider we list.
Choose this for repository-scale coding tasks where one million tokens of context outweighs the lack of measured benchmarks, or for budget-predictable workflows where every host charges the same output rate. Skip it if you need open weights for local fine-tuning, verified speed comparisons, or any independent quality scores.
The case for it
- One-million-token request limit — far beyond typical coding-model ranges we track.
- Identical pricing across all three offers removes provider-hopping for a better deal.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores, quality data, or verified speed comparisons in our data.
- Proprietary only: no local download or fine-tuning possible.
- Throughput claims of 18–35 tokens per second are unverified against competitors.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.20 in / $0.97 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- ~57 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.20 / $0.97checked 2 hours ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Alibaba CloudThrough OpenRouter | $0.20 / $0.97checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 57 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
OpenRouterAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Alibaba CloudThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no.
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- No independent board has scored it, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- qwen-qwen3-coder-flash