Is QwQ-Plus deprecated or retired?

Yes. QwQ-Plus is Retired per Alibaba's own deprecation notice, retired on 2026-10-10. ModelPriceWatch last re-verified this status on 2026-10-18.

Is QwQ-Plus deprecated?

Alibaba · lifecycle status verified Oct 18, 2026 against the provider's own page.

Yes — QwQ-Plus is retired as of Oct 10, 2026. Alibaba no longer serves it on the endpoint we price. The prices below are kept for historical reference only.

Last verified pricing

historical reference — not a buy recommendation

QwQ-Plus was last priced at $0.800 per 1M input tokens and $2.40 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K-token context window. Full history stays on the QwQ-Plus model page.

Picking a replacement

We don't hold a benchmark average for QwQ-Plus, so we won't claim any model is "equivalent" to it. Compare live prices across every current model in the migration calculator.

Migrating off QwQ-Plus? The migration calculator compares your exact input/output token mix against every current model we track, with benchmark tradeoffs. Lifecycle data on this page comes from Alibaba's own page and was last re-verified on Oct 18, 2026. See all retired & deprecated models.