Qwen3 VL Flash is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 33K output tokens, starting at $0.05 / 1M input and $0.4 / 1M output. A fast, lightweight variant of the Qwen3 vision-language series, optimized for efficient multimodal inference with reduced latency.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-flash
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output33K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
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
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qwen3-vl-flash
$0.05$0.4$0.025$0.2

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASRAvailable
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR FiletransAvailable
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR StreamingAvailable
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime$0.450$4.50Available
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next1.0M$0.120$0.400Available
Qwen3 VL Flash262K$0.050$0.400Current
Qwen3.5 Omni Flash$0.400$3.00Available
Qwen Flash Character$0.050$0.400Available
Qwen TTS Flash$0.230$1.43Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$2.00$6.00
Qwen Image 3
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus$0.800$6.40
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus
Qwen Image 3.0 ProPro
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
DeepSeek R1 Qwen3 8B
Qwen3.8 27B1.0M$0.400$2.55
Qwen3.8 MaxMax1.0M$1.65$4.95
Qwen3.7 PlusPlus1.0M$0.320$1.28

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-vl-flash
qwen3-vl-flash
qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15
qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15-us
qwen3-vl-flash-2026-01-22
qwen3-vl-flash-2026-01-22-us
qwen3-vl-flash-us