RETIRED OCT 10 2026VISION VALUE128K CONTEXTTEXT + VISIONQWEN3 VL FLASH REPLACEMENT
Qwen VL Plus API Pricing
Retired October 10, 2026: Alibaba took qwen-vl-plus offline on that date, and calls to it now fail; the model is gone from Alibaba's pricing page. Alibaba's notice points to the Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.7 series instead. Qwen VL Plus is the legacy low-cost Qwen vision-language row for visual understanding. Alibaba lists the International/Singapore baseline at $0.21/M input and $0.63/M output; the current snapshot is qwen-vl-plus-2025-08-15. Checked by hand against alibabacloud.com.
Input - per 1M tokens
$0.21/M
Source Alibaba Cloud flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$0.63/M
Context 128K flat
Cache N/A
$0.21/M
Cache no dollar row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.244/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL
Qwen VL Plus API cost calculator.
Live calculator pre-loaded with current Qwen VL Plus rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.
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§ 02 / SCENARIOS
Qwen VL Plus cost on real workloads.
VISION
Invoice extraction
$0.00176/doc
UI QA
Screenshot inspection
$0.00315/screen
VIDEO
Clip frame review
$0.00724/clip
CHARTS
Dashboard explain
$0.00149/image
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type
Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.
Characters 430
Words 64
Tokens (estimated) 82 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00002 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00005 USD
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen VL Plus Current | $0.21 | $0.63 | $0.244 agentic 92/8 | 128K | Legacy low-cost vision apps |
| Qwen3 VL Plus | $0.20 | $1.60 | $0.312 +28% | 256K | Current vision and document understanding |
| Qwen3 VL Flash | $0.05 | $0.40 | $0.078 retired | 256K | Cheap high-volume vision tasks |
| Qwen VL Max | $0.80 | $3.20 | $0.992 retired | 128K | Legacy visual reasoning workloads |
| Qwen 3.5 Plus | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.56 +2.3× | 1M | Current Qwen production default |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 +2.6× | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 +97% · promo | 1M | Google long-context Flash workloads |
Qwen VL Plus API pricing FAQ.
Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.
Q · 01 When did Qwen VL Plus stop working? +
Alibaba announced on April 13, 2026 that
qwen-vl-plus would go offline on October 10, 2026 (00:00, UTC+8) in the Beijing and Singapore regions, and it has: on October 21, 2026 the model is no longer on Alibaba's pricing page, and calls to it fail. Its notice recommends moving to the Qwen3.6 or Qwen3.7 series. The rates on this page are the last Alibaba published.Q · 02 What is Qwen VL Plus priced at? +
Qwen VL Plus is listed at
$0.21/M input and $0.63/M output in Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's International/Singapore deployment section. The page stores USD per-million-token pricing.Q · 03 What replaced Qwen VL Plus? +
Qwen3.6 Flash is the newer Alibaba row to compare first for new projects (Qwen3 VL Flash, suggested here before, went offline on the same October 10 date). Qwen VL Plus was kept listed for compatibility until Alibaba took it offline on October 10, 2026; traffic that used it has to move to the replacement.
Q · 04 Does this page use International or Global pricing? +
This page uses Alibaba Cloud Model Studio International deployment pricing, where endpoint and data storage are in Singapore and inference resources are dynamically scheduled globally excluding Chinese Mainland. Global, US, EU, China (Hong Kong), and Chinese Mainland sections can list different prices.
Q · 05 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
Alibaba marks context-cache support on some Qwen rows, but this row does not publish a concrete cache-read dollar price in the pricing table. The calculator therefore treats cached input as the same
$0.21/M baseline instead of inventing a discount.Q · 06 How is the effective price calculated? +
AI//COST uses the same 92/8 agentic blend everywhere. With no separate cache-read price published for this row, Qwen VL Plus's effective blended cost is
$0.24/M.Q · 07 Is there a Batch Invocation discount? +
Alibaba documents Batch Invocation as 50% off real-time input and output tokens for supported Qwen rows. The quote tiles show real-time list pricing; batch economics should be treated as a separate calculator variant.
Q · 08 Does Alibaba include a free quota? +
Many International Model Studio rows include a 1 million token free quota that is valid for 90 days after activating Model Studio. Free-quota eligibility is deployment- and model-specific, so production estimates should use the paid list prices shown here.