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Pi vs Qwen
Compare Pi vs Qwen: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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pi.ai ↗ Qwen
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Free tier
Fully free, no paid tier
Generous free tier in consumer app
Standard plan
Free — API only
Plus — API only
Top plan
API only — API only
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
$2.50
$0.40 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$10.00
$1.20 Best
Capability
Context window
32K
256K Best
Max output tokens
4K
8K Best
Knowledge cutoff
2025-08
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
—
72% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
55%
85% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
62%
74% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1280
1370 Best
Features
Image input
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✓
Voice mode
✓
✓
Web search
Partial
✓
File upload
—
✓
Image generation
—
✓
Code execution
—
✓
Agent / tool use
—
✓
Persistent memory
✓
✓
Pi
Conversational and EQ-focused. Best voice mode in 2024–2025 (six warm voices). Limited capability vs frontier models. Now part of Microsoft after Inflection acqui-hire.
Qwen
Frontier-tier benchmarks at the lowest API cost in the high-quality tier. Open weights for Qwen 3-235B (Apache 2.0). Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations.
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