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Qwen3-VL Plus
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3-vl-plus·GA·Closed·qwen series
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
At a glance
Official price$0.143 / $1.43 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.143 / $1.43
Merge Gateway Gateway · 1.4× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 256,000–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit32,768
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2025-09-23 / 2025-09-23
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 6 providers5 with public prices · 1 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iFlow | Gateway | Free | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | ||
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.143 | $1.43 | $0.029 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.143 | $1.43 | — | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| LLMTR | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.60 | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.20 | $1.60 | — | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.60 | $0.04 | $0.25 | 262,144 | 32,768 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Merge Gateway$86.57
2Alibaba (China) · Official$100.35
3DevPass (LLM Gateway)$100.80
4LLMTR$120.00
5Alibaba · Official$120.00
1 more channels offer $0 (iFlow); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to Merge Gateway to save $13.77/mo (14%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
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2 / 6 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended