Qwen Plus 0728 vs Cydonia 24B V4.1

Qwen Plus 0728 at $0.299 in and $0.897 out and Cydonia 24B V4.1 at $0.345 in and $0.575 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Qwen Plus 0728

Qwen

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.299 in · $0.897 out / 1M

1M context · released September 2025

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Cydonia 24B V4.1

Thedrummer

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.345 in · $0.575 out / 1M

131K context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.44¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen Plus 0728 at $0.299 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Cydonia 24B V4.1 at $0.575 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen Plus 0728 at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Qwen Plus 0728

0.1¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

0.1¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Qwen Plus 0728

0.22¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

0.22¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Qwen Plus 0728

5¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Qwen Plus 0728

1.1¢

Cydonia 24B V4.1

1.3¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Qwen Plus 0728

$0.08

Cydonia 24B V4.1

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Qwen Plus 0728

Cydonia 24B V4.1

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Pricing

Qwen Plus 0728

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Input / 1M tokens

$0.299

$0.345

Output / 1M tokens

$0.897

$0.575

Cached input / 1M

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$0.172

Specs

Qwen Plus 0728

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Provider

Qwen

Thedrummer

Released

September 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

33K

131K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2025-03-31

2024-04-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Qwen Plus 0728

Qwen

0.1¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Thedrummer

0.1¢

for this task

71% input · 29% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.2¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,470 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen Plus 0728 has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Cydonia 24B V4.1 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.22¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Qwen Plus 0728 or Cydonia 24B V4.1?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Cydonia 24B V4.1 at 0.22¢; Qwen Plus 0728 at 0.22¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen Plus 0728 — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run Qwen Plus 0728 and Cydonia 24B V4.1 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.44¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.44¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.