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Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Oct 15, 2025

Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)

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

  • Proprietary
  • Tool calling
  • Vision
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
$0.022per 1M tokens
Output
$0.215per 1M tokens
Context
262K33K max output
Pricing

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 usageEstimated 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.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) yet.

Specifications

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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Questions

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).