Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) for your use-case.
Fastest
Nebius (Base, FP4)
Alibaba Cloud
Novita
Parasail
DeepInfra (FP8)Output speed
Total 7 providers
Lowest Latency
Nebius (Base, FP4)NovitaAlibaba CloudParasailDeepInfra (FP8)Time to first answer token
Total 7 providers
Lowest Price
DigitalOceanDeepInfra (FP8)ParasailAlibaba Cloud
GMI (FP8)Blended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 7 providers
Qwen3.5 397B A17B is available through 7 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Nebius (Base, FP4) (149.2 t/s), Alibaba Cloud (90.9 t/s), and Novita (90.1 t/s). Speed varies significantly across providers, with a 840% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, Nebius (Base, FP4) (23.25s), Novita (37.01s), and Alibaba Cloud (37.37s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, DigitalOcean (0.54), DeepInfra (FP8) (0.54), and Parasail (0.67) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
- Nebius (Base, FP4) offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, DigitalOcean provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning)
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) providers
Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) is available through 7 API providers: Alibaba Cloud, Parasail, DeepInfra (FP8), DigitalOcean, GMI (FP8), Nebius (Base, FP4), and Novita. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) is currently available through 7 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The fastest providers for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) by output speed are Nebius (Base, FP4) (149.2 t/s), Alibaba Cloud (90.9 t/s), and Novita (90.1 t/s). Output speed measures how quickly tokens are generated after the model starts responding.
The providers with the lowest time to first answer token for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) are Nebius (Base, FP4) (23.25s), Novita (37.01s), and Alibaba Cloud (37.37s). Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable providers for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) by blended price are DigitalOcean ($0.54 per 1M tokens), DeepInfra (FP8) ($0.54 per 1M tokens), and Parasail ($0.67 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) are DeepInfra (FP8) ($0.45 per 1M input tokens), Parasail ($0.50 per 1M input tokens), and DigitalOcean ($0.55 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) are DeepInfra (FP8) ($3.00 per 1M output tokens), DigitalOcean ($3.50 per 1M output tokens), and Alibaba Cloud ($3.60 per 1M output tokens).
Prices for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) vary up to 1.7x across providers. The most affordable is DigitalOcean at $0.54 per 1M tokens, while Alibaba Cloud charges $0.90 per 1M tokens.
Output speed for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) varies significantly across providers. Nebius (Base, FP4) is the fastest at 149.2 t/s, which is 9.4x faster than DigitalOcean at 15.9 t/s.
All 7 providers of Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) support JSON mode for structured output.
All 7 providers of Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) support function calling (tool use).
For Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning), Nebius (Base, FP4) offers the best performance with highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, DigitalOcean provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning), consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning)'s intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview