AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual vs Trinity Mini vs Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)

Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) is the better all-round choice, scoring 72/100 against Trinity Mini (65) and AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual (60). It leads on inputs & features and context window. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.

AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual is cheaper at $0.035 input / $0.138 output per million tokens (median across 2 API providers). Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) costs $0.022 input / $0.215 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider); Trinity Mini costs $0.045 input / $0.15 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.061 per million tokens for AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual versus $0.07 for Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) (1.2× as much) and $0.071 for Trinity Mini (1.2× as much).

There is no independent benchmark that covers all three models yet. AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual has not been scored yet, Trinity Mini has not been scored yet and Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) has not been scored yet.

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual, Trinity Mini and Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. Note that AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual does not support tool calling, which most coding agents need.

Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) has the largest context window at 262,144 tokens, against 131,072 for Trinity Mini and 65,536 for AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual. Maximum output per response: AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual up to 65,536, Trinity Mini up to 131,072, Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) up to 32,768 tokens.

AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual accepts text and images; Trinity Mini accepts text; Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) accepts text and images. AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual handles the widest range of inputs.

AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual and Trinity Mini publishes its weights (MIT and OpenMDW-1.1) and can be self-hosted; Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) is proprietary.

AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual is the newest, released Dec 10, 2025. Trinity Mini came out Dec 1, 2025; Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) came out Oct 15, 2025.

Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Nov 2, 2026.