Data updated 2026-10-19.
Price spread

Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct

qwen/qwen-2.5-7b-instruct

Qwen (Alibaba)· 33K ctx
API onlytool callstructured quant: unknown

spread (output, p90 ÷ p10)

— too few providers

$0.0500 – $0.300 · 3 providers · max÷min 6.0×

3 providers priced · 5 offerings

Cheapest / median / spread use providers that serve the model on their own capacity: first-party lab, hyperscaler, inference host.

Provider classes in the stats:
Blended $/M assumptions

blended = 90.9% input × [(1 − 70% cache) × input + 70% cache × cache-read] + 9.1% × output + cache writes (30% of uncached input) where a write price is published

A provider that publishes no cache price is blended with cache share 0 (all input at the input price) and labelled “no cache price published” — never penalised against identical in/out prices.

ProviderInputOutputCache rdBlended
SiliconFlow (China)CN
inference host
$0.0500$0.0500—$0.0500no cache price published
Alibaba (China)CNfirst-party
first-party lab
$0.0720$0.144—$0.0785no cache price published
OpenRouter
router / aggregator
$0.100$0.200—$0.109no cache price published
Kilo Gateway
router / aggregator
$0.100$0.200—$0.109no cache price published
Together AI
inference host
$0.300$0.300—$0.300no cache price published

Data: models.dev (MIT), snapshot 2026-10-19. Prices are vendor-published; verify before purchase. Methodology.