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Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Oct 28, 2024

Qwen-VL OCR

OCR model for extracting structured text from documents and screenshots.

  • Proprietary
  • Vision
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
$0.72per 1M tokens
Output
$0.72per 1M tokens
Context
34K4K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
$0.72per million tokens
Output
$0.72per million tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.72cheaper than 52% of priced models

Typical monthly bills

Monthly usageEstimated cost
Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens$1.80
Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens$21.60
Production app250M input + 50M output tokens$216.00

Official Alibaba API price, as listed on models.dev.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen-VL OCR yet.

Specifications

The details

Lab
Alibaba (Qwen)
Released
Oct 28, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2024
Context window
34,096 tokens
Max output
4,096 tokens
Inputs
Text, Images
Output
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
No
Structured output
No
Weights
Proprietary
API model ID
qwen-vl-ocron Alibaba
Availability
1 API providerlisted on models.dev

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Questions

About Qwen-VL OCR

How much does Qwen-VL OCR cost?

Qwen-VL OCR costs $0.72 input / $0.72 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.72 per million tokens, cheaper than 52% of the 360 priced models we track.

What is the context window of Qwen-VL OCR?

Qwen-VL OCR accepts up to 34,096 tokens per request and can write up to 4,096 tokens in one response.

How good is Qwen-VL OCR?

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen-VL OCR yet.

Is Qwen-VL OCR open source?

No. Qwen-VL OCR is proprietary; you use it through Alibaba’s API or partner platforms.

What inputs does Qwen-VL OCR support?

Qwen-VL OCR accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, does not support tool calling.

When was Qwen-VL OCR released?

Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen-VL OCR on Oct 28, 2024. Its training data runs to Apr 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Qwen-VL OCR?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Aya Expanse 32B (Cohere, $0.50 / $1.50), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct (NVIDIA, $0.478 / $0.504), Codestral (Mistral AI, $0.30 / $0.90) and Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct (Meta, $0.197 / $0.51).