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Qwen3.7's off-peak pricing cuts API costs by 80%, and US developers get the best hours
Alibaba's Qwen3.7 off-peak pricing offers up to 80% off API calls during hours that cover the US and EU workday. Here's how it compares to GPT-5.5, Claude, and Gemini, and which workloads benefit most.
Emmanuel Fabrice Omgbwa Yasse AI-assisted
2026-05-20 · Last updated: 2026-07-30 · 1 min read
Alibaba's Model Studio just made frontier AI cheaper. From June 23, API calls to Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.7-Plus between 22:00 and 08:00 Beijing time are automatically discounted by up to 80%. No sign-up, no coupons, no code changes. The model, latency, and SLA stay the same. The invoice shrinks.
At off-peak rates, Qwen3.7-Max costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. That is 10 times cheaper on input and 20 times cheaper on
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