OpenRouter app · rank #41cloud-agentgameSnapshot 2026-04-27
Qwen Code
Powerful command-line AI workflow tool
https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code.git →
17.5B
Tokens (30d)
285K
Requests
$33K
Monthly cost
$0.63
Blended $/M tokens
Ranks in the 7th percentile by spend and 3th by raw tokens among the top 30 apps.
Primary driver
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus is Qwen Code's top model at 23.3B — 132.7% of total token volume and 54.4% of monthly cost ($18K).
Top-20 model breakdown
Ranked by monthly cost. Prices from OpenRouter's live catalog. Blended $/M = price_in × 72% + price_out × 28%.
| # | Model | Vendor | Tokens | % of vol. | $/M in | $/M out | Blended $/M | Monthly cost | % of spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus qwen/qwen3.6-plus-04-02 | qwen | 23.3B | 132.7% | $0.33 | $1.95 | $0.78 | $18K | 54.4% |
| 2 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B qwen/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-07-25 | qwen | 5.1B | 29.3% | $0.22 | $1.80 | $0.66 | $3K | 10.2% |
| 3 | Z.ai: GLM 5.1 z-ai/glm-5.1-20260406 | z-ai | 1.5B | 8.6% | $1.05 | $3.50 | $1.74 | $3K | 7.8% |
| 4 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus qwen/qwen3-coder-plus | qwen | 1.5B | 8.3% | $0.65 | $3.25 | $1.38 | $2K | 6.0% |
| 5 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next qwen/qwen3-coder-next-2025-02-03 | qwen | 6.0B | 34.5% | $0.14 | $0.80 | $0.32 | $2K | 5.9% |
| 6 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus qwen/qwen3.6-plus-preview | qwen | 1.8B | 10.3% | $0.33 | $1.95 | $0.78 | $1K | 4.2% |
| 7 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 minimax/minimax-m2.7-20260318 | minimax | 2.0B | 11.4% | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.55 | $1K | 3.3% |
| 8 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 qwen/qwen3.5-plus-20260216 | qwen | 551.2M | 3.1% | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.96 | $529 | 1.6% |
| 9 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash stepfun/step-3.5-flash | stepfun | 2.7B | 15.4% | $0.10 | $0.30 | $0.16 | $421 | 1.3% |
| 10 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 minimax/minimax-m2.5-20260211 | minimax | 812.0M | 4.6% | $0.15 | $1.15 | $0.43 | $349 | 1.0% |
| 11 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b-20230311 | nvidia | 1.7B | 9.8% | $0.09 | $0.45 | $0.19 | $326 | 1.0% |
| 12 | Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2-20260327 | kwaipilot | 517.1M | 3.0% | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.55 | $285 | 0.9% |
| 13 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 deepseek/deepseek-v3.2-20251201 | deepseek | 903.7M | 5.2% | $0.25 | $0.38 | $0.29 | $260 | 0.8% |
| 14 | Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air z-ai/glm-4.5-air | z-ai | 748.8M | 4.3% | $0.13 | $0.85 | $0.33 | $248 | 0.7% |
| 15 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash qwen/qwen3.5-flash-20260224 | qwen | 1.4B | 8.2% | $0.07 | $0.26 | $0.12 | $172 | 0.5% |
| 16 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash xiaomi/mimo-v2-flash-20251210 | xiaomi | 660.9M | 3.8% | $0.09 | $0.29 | $0.15 | $96 | 0.3% |
| 17 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b openai/gpt-oss-120b | openai | 445.7M | 2.5% | $0.04 | $0.19 | $0.08 | $36 | 0.1% |
| 18 | openrouter/elephant-alpha openrouter/elephant-alpha | openrouter | 3.5B | 20.2% | — | — | — | — | 0.0% |
| 19 | Tencent: Hy3 preview (free)FREE tencent/hy3-preview-20260421 | tencent | 719.9M | 4.1% | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | $0 | 0.0% |
| 20 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T (free)FREE inclusionai/ling-2.6-1t-20260423 | inclusionai | 468.8M | 2.7% | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | $0 | 0.0% |
Cross-references
- Full leaderboard: OpenRouter app leaderboard
- Inverted view: Which models AI agents actually use
- Related benchmarks: /agentic
- Source: openrouter.ai/apps/qwen-code
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