Announcements

This page lists announcements for Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, including model updates, pricing changes, and new features.

2026

January

Price reduction for Qwen3-Max
Update for qwen3-vl-plus and qwen-plus

2025

December

Update of Qwen3-TTS-Flash and Qwen3-TTS-Flash-Realtime
Update of Qwen3-Omni-Flash and Qwen3-Omni-Flash-Realtime
Changes of the Bill Details Page

November

New models support batch processing
Update of Qwen3-Coder-Plus
Update of Qwen-VL-OCR
Update of Fun-ASR models
Price reduction for Qwen3-Max
Price reduction for some open source models

October

Update of Qwen3-VL-Plus API parameter

September

Update of Qwen3-Coder-Plus
Update of Qwen-MT series
Launch of LLM savings plan
Qwen-VL-Plus and Qwen-VL-Max: Implicit cache support in the Singapore region
Qwen 3-Coder-Plus explicit caching feature goes live
Billing upgrade for Model Studio model inference
Update of Qwen-VL-Max and Qwen-VL-Plus
Update of the Qwen-Plus

August

Context cache price reduction for certain models
Validity period adjustment for the free quota for new Alibaba Cloud Model Studio users
Update and pricing change of Qwen-Plus-Latest

July

Limited-time offer for Qwen3-Coder-Plus
Commercialization of Qwen2.5-Omni-7b free trial model
Output price of Qwen-Plus and Qwen-Turbo reduced by 50% under Qwen3's thinking mode
URL change of Model Studio console
Commercialization of QVQ-Max free trial model

June

Model API feature changes
June 30: Update of Qwen-Plus and Qwen-Turbo
June 30: Update of Qwen-VL-Plus
June 4: Update of Qwen-VL-Max
June 4: Update of Qwen-VL-Plus

May

Commercialization of the Qwen2.5 and Qwen2.5-VL open source free trial models
Deprecation of the Qwen1.5 and Qwen2 series open source models