Qwen3 4B Thinking is Alibaba's language model, starting at $0.01 / 1M input and $0.03 / 1M output. A thinking-mode variant of the Qwen3 4B model that enables chain-of-thought reasoning within a compact, efficient architecture.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-4b-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters4B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Hugging Face
nscale:Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507
$0.01$0.03

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 4B Thinking, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 10 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hrwestus2
g5g.xlargeAWST4g16 GB$0.420/hrus-east-1
Standard_NV8as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.466/hrwestus2
7 more instances can run Qwen3 4B Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime$0.413$4.13Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime$0.688$5.50Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSAvailable
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B InstructAvailable
Qwen3.7 Plus1.0M$0.320$1.28Available
Qwen3.7 Max1.0M$1.25$3.75Available
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.04$6.24Available
Qwen3.6 27B262K$0.150$0.500Available
Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K$0.140$0.450Available
Qwen3.6 Plus1.0M$0.325$1.95Available
Qwen3 4B Thinking$0.010$0.030Current

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-4b-thinking