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Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Jan 25, 2024

Qwen-VL Plus

Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks.

  • Proprietary
  • Tool calling
  • Vision
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
$0.21per 1M tokens
Output
$0.63per 1M tokens
Context
131K8K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
$0.21per million tokens
Output
$0.63per million tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.315cheaper than 70% of priced models

Typical monthly bills

Monthly usageEstimated cost
Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens$0.735
Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens$8.40
Production app250M input + 50M output tokens$84.00

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

Capability

Independent benchmarks

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

Specifications

The details

Lab
Alibaba (Qwen)
Released
Jan 25, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2024
Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Inputs
Text, Images
Output
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
Weights
Proprietary
API model ID
qwen-vl-pluson Alibaba
Availability
2 API providerslisted on models.dev

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Questions

About Qwen-VL Plus

How much does Qwen-VL Plus cost?

Qwen-VL Plus costs $0.21 input / $0.63 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.315 per million tokens, cheaper than 70% of the 360 priced models we track.

What is the context window of Qwen-VL Plus?

Qwen-VL Plus accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 8,192 tokens in one response.

How good is Qwen-VL Plus?

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

Is Qwen-VL Plus open source?

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

What inputs does Qwen-VL Plus support?

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

When was Qwen-VL Plus released?

Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen-VL Plus on Jan 25, 2024. Its training data runs to Apr 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Qwen-VL Plus?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Mistral 7B (Mistral AI, $0.25 / $0.25), Command R (Cohere, $0.15 / $0.60), Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct (Meta, $0.197 / $0.51) and solar-mini (Upstage, $0.15 / $0.15).