Qwen3-VL Flash
Qwen3-VL Flash is a language model from Qwen released on Oct 15, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 66K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.022 per million input tokens and $0.215 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.0044, 80% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling, structured JSON output and prompt caching.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.022 / $0.215 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 66K
- Released
- Oct 15, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen3-VL Flash pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.022 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.215 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.0044 / 1M tokens | 80% off input |
| Cache write | $0.0275 / 1M tokens |
What Qwen3-VL Flash costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen3-VL Flash through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen3-VL Flash questions
How much does the Qwen3-VL Flash API cost?
$0.022 per million input tokens and $0.215 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.0044. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen3-VL Flash?
262,144 tokens of input, and it can write up to 65,536 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Qwen3-VL Flash support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen3-VL Flash open source?
No. Qwen serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Qwen3-VL Flash released?
Oct 15, 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen3-VL Flash?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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