Qwen3-VL-Plus

Alibaba's hosted Qwen3-VL vision-language model combining thinking and non-thinking modes, built for visual agent work, visual coding and spatial perception.

Context: 262K tokens
Max output: 33K

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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.20 /1M
Output: $1.60 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Qwen3-VL-Plus, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Qwen3-VL-Plus, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$0.20	$1.60	$0.04	$5.20	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen3-VL-Plus by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3-VL-Plus per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3-VL-Plus
Llama 4 Maverick Meta	$0.35	$0.25	$0.87	1M	Aug 2024	−18%
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	$0.37	$0.20	$1.20	1M	Feb 2026	−15%
GPT-5.4 Nano OpenAI	$0.38	$0.20	$1.25	400K	Aug 2025	−13%
Codestral Mistral	$0.40	$0.30	$0.90	128K		−8%
Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.41	$0.276	$1.101	1M		−5%
Qwen3-VL-Plus This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.43	$0.20	$1.60	262K
MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax	$0.45	$0.30	$1.20	205K		+4%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google Cloud	$0.46	$0.25	$1.50	1M	Jan 2025	+6%
Qwen3.6-Flash Alibaba Cloud	$0.46	$0.25	$1.50	1M		+6%
MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi MiMo	$0.51	$0.435	$0.87	1M		+17%
GPT-5 Mini OpenAI	$0.54	$0.25	$2.00	400K	May 2024	+25%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Qwen3-VL-Plus accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Video Accepts video as input.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Common questions

What is Qwen3-VL-Plus good for?

Hosted visual agents and visual coding on Alibaba Cloud, with image and video input.

When is Qwen3-VL-Plus not a good fit?

Self-hosting: the weights are closed, with no published parameter count. No built-in web search or audio input, and its maximum output is shorter than most Qwen3 siblings'.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3-VL-Plus?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.20 / $1.60 per 1M tokens via Alibaba Cloud.

Can I self-host Qwen3-VL-Plus?

No. Alibaba Cloud does not publish the weights; Qwen3-VL-Plus is available only through hosted APIs.