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
Hosted API price
List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens
- Input
- $0.20 /1M
- Output
- $1.60 /1M
- Hosted by
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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.
Transparency and funding
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Every provider serving Qwen3-VL-Plus, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.
| Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cost at 10M in + 2M out | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Alibaba Cloud
Creator
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$0.20 | $1.60 | $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.
| Model | Blended /1M | Input /1M | Output /1M | Context | Cutoff | vs Qwen3-VL-Plus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DeepSeek V3.1
DeepSeek
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$0.3917 | $0.27 | $1.00 | 131K | −10% | |
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DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
DeepSeek
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$0.3917 | $0.27 | $1.00 | 131K | −10% | |
Codestral
Mistral
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$0.40 | $0.30 | $0.90 | 128K | −8% | |
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DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek
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$0.4117 | $0.27 | $1.12 | 128K | −5% | |
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Qwen3.7-Plus
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.4167 | $0.28 | $1.10 | 1M | −4% | |
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Qwen3-VL-Plus
This model
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.4333 | $0.20 | $1.60 | 262K | ||
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek
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$0.45 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1M | +4% | |
MiniMax-M2.5
MiniMax
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$0.45 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 205K | +4% | |
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google Cloud
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$0.4583 | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1M | Jan 2025 | +6% |
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Qwen3.6-Flash
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.4583 | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1M | +6% | |
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Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.50 | $0.30 | $1.50 | 262K | +15% |
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.
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.
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