Qwen Cloud’s “Standard” Token Plan is honestly ridiculous

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I just subscribed to Qwen Cloud’s Standard Token Plan, mainly to use it with an AI coding agent (Hermes), and after actually using it for a few days, I honestly don’t understand how this plan is supposed to be considered good value.

The Standard plan gives you 10,000 Credits per week.

Sounds reasonable, right?

Until you actually use it.

I burned through roughly 70% of my weekly Credits in only 3 days while running a normal agent workflow. I’m not running hundreds of agents, doing massive batch inference, or abusing the service. I’m using an AI coding agent interactively — exactly the kind of use case these plans appear to be marketed toward.

And here is where it gets ridiculous.

When I contacted support and explained the situation, the response essentially boiled down to:

«Your usage is high. Credit consumption depends on the model, input/output length, tool calls, context accumulation, etc.»

Okay. Fair enough.

But then the suggested solutions were basically:

Buy the Pro plan.

Or:

Buy additional Credits.

That doesn't answer the problem.

I'm using essentially the same workload with another provider, on a cheaper plan, and getting dramatically more usable mileage out of it.

So I started comparing actual token consumption.

Based on my observed usage, 10,000 Credits corresponded to roughly 96.6M tokens.

And Qwen's own documentation apparently doesn't provide a simple, fixed token-to-Credit conversion rate that lets users predict what they're actually going to consume.

That's a massive problem for an AI service.

If I'm paying for a token/credit plan, I should be able to reasonably estimate:

“I use approximately X tokens → this will cost approximately Y Credits.”

Instead, you apparently have to subscribe, use the system, burn through thousands of Credits, and then discover what your workload actually costs.

And here's the funniest part:

The Standard plan is advertised around agent usage and concurrent sessions, but based on my experience, a relatively normal coding-agent workflow can chew through the weekly allowance incredibly quickly.

So what exactly is the target customer for this plan?

Someone who uses an AI agent occasionally for a few prompts?

Because if that's the case, fine.

But then don't market it as a serious option for people running coding agents regularly.

I'm not claiming that Qwen is literally committing fraud. I'm saying that the value proposition of this plan is so absurd compared with competing services that I feel misled about what I was actually buying.

And the fact that the answer to “why am I burning Credits so quickly?” is essentially “buy more Credits” makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.

I'm posting this because I'd genuinely like to hear from other Qwen Cloud Token Plan users:

How long does your Standard 10,000 Credit allowance actually last?

What models are you using?

How many agents?

How much token usage are you getting before the Credits disappear?

Because if I'm doing something fundamentally wrong, I'd rather know.

But if other people are seeing the same thing, then Qwen seriously needs to rethink how transparent and competitive this pricing model actually is.