Flash is Alibaba's language model with a 998K context window and up to 33K output tokens, starting at $0.05 / 1M input and $0.4 / 1M output. A lightweight, high-speed Alibaba LLM tier designed for low-latency inference on everyday tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-flash
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window998K tokens
Max Output33K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen-flash
$0.05$0.4$0.025$0.2

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Flash998K$0.050$0.400Current
ASR Flash$0.000Available
ASR Flash 8K Realtime$0.000Available
Flash US1.0M$0.050$0.400Available
MT Flash16K$0.160$0.490Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Text 4 Embedding$0.070
Text 3 Embedding$0.070
HappyHorse 1.0
ASR$0.000
ASR MTL$0.000
ASR MTL Realtime$0.000
ASR Realtime$0.000
Coder1.0M$0.300$1.50
Coder PlusPlus131K$0.502$1.00
Coder TurboTurbo131K$0.287$0.861

Model IDs

alibaba-flash
dashscope/qwen-flash
dashscope/qwen-flash-2025-07-28
qwen-flash
qwen-flash-2025-07-28