Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.022per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.215per 1M tokens
- Context
- 262K33K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.022per million tokens
- Output
- $0.215per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.07cheaper than 93% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.151 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $1.63 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $16.25 |
Median of 1 paid API provider on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) yet.
The details
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- Oct 15, 2025
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
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About Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)
How much does Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) cost?
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) costs $0.022 input / $0.215 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.07 per million tokens, cheaper than 93% of the 445 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)?
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request and can write up to 32,768 tokens in one response.
How good is Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) yet.
Is Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) open source?
No. Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) support?
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) on Oct 15, 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Trinity Mini (Arcee AI, $0.045 / $0.15), Baichuan M2 32B (Baichuan, $0.07 / $0.07), AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.035 / $0.138) and Ministral 3 3B (Mistral AI, $0.10 / $0.10).