Qwen3 VL Flash API Pricing
Retired October 10, 2026: Alibaba took qwen3-vl-flash offline on that date, and calls to it now fail; the model is gone from Alibaba's pricing page. Alibaba recommends Qwen3.6 Flash instead. Qwen3 VL Flash is Qwen cheap vision-language tier. Baseline rates are $0.05/M input and $0.4/M output. Pulled directly from alibabacloud.com and re-verified against the pricing page.
Qwen3 VL Flash API cost calculator.
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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.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 VL Flash Current | $0.05 | $0.40 | $0.078 agentic 92/8 | 256K | Vision and document understanding |
| Qwen3 Max | $1.20 | $6.00 | $1.58 retired | 252K | Frontier Qwen reasoning |
| Qwen 3.5 Plus | $0.40 | $2.40 | $0.56 +7.2× | 1M | General Qwen production workloads |
| Qwen 3.5 Flash | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.124 +59% | 1M | Bulk chat and long-context RAG |
| Qwen3 VL Plus | $0.20 | $1.60 | $0.312 +4.0× | 256K | Vision and document understanding |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 +8.3× | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 +6.2× · promo | 1M | Mainstream multimodal work |
Qwen3 VL Flash API pricing FAQ.
Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions.
Q · 01 When did Qwen3 VL Flash stop working? +
qwen3-vl-flash 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 Qwen3.6 Flash. The rates on this page are the last Alibaba published.Q · 02 What is Qwen3 VL Flash priced at? +
$0.05/M input and $0.4/M output. The page stores USD per-million-token baseline pricing from alibabacloud.com.Q · 03 Does this page include higher context pricing tiers? +
Q · 04 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
$0.05/M.Q · 05 How is the effective price calculated? +
$0.08/M with only documented cache discounts included.