Qwen3 Coder Flash
Qwen · released Sep 17, 2025
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we hold no downloadable copy
Our take
Written Aug 2, 2026Qwen3 Coder Flash is a hosted-only coding model from Alibaba that can handle up to one million tokens in a single request. It is built for repository-scale code review and long-document tasks, though no benchmark scores are available to verify its specialist claims.
Choose this when you need to feed an entire large codebase or extensive documentation into one request for analysis or review. Use it if you value having two speed options on the same provider at the same price point. Skip it if you need measured quality data to justify the cost, if you want to self-host or fine-tune, or if consistent throughput matters more than peak speed.
The case for it
- One-million-token request limit enables entire large repositories or extensive documentation in one pass.
- Two distinct speed options on Alibaba at the same price: one endpoint at 60 tokens per second, another at 31.5.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores in our data, so coding accuracy is unverified.
- Output costs noticeably more than many alternatives we track, with no quality data to validate the premium.
- Throughput varies sharply even within the same provider, with one endpoint running at roughly half the speed of the other and no stated reason.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Qwen3 Coder Flash — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Cheapest of 3 live listings. Picked at the widest standard context we hold, within one quantisation slice, so the numbers beside it are a price one host actually charges.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.20 in / $0.97 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.20 / $0.97 | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Alibaba Cloudfp8 | $0.20 / $0.97 | 1M | 22 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
| Alibaba Cloud | $0.20 / $0.97 | 1M | 32 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
Across the 3 listings we hold: 2 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Alibaba Cloudfp8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Alibaba Cloud | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 3 of 3 listings say yes. JSON output: 3 of 3 listings say yes. Strict schema: 0 of 3 listings say yes, 3 say no.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, 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 3 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
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
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text->text
- Catalogue slug
- qwen-qwen3-coder-flash