Qwen: Qwen VL Plus

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryVisionTool use

Qwen: Qwen VL Plus is a multimodal model for vision-language understanding. It combines multimodal input handling and image understanding with a 131K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for vision-language understanding and content analysis when quality, speed, and cost matters.

Input

$0.14/1M

Output

$0.41/1M

Cached

$0.03/1M

Batch

$0.10/1M

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Technical specifications

Qwen VL Plus at a glance.

Memory

131,072

tokens

Max reply

8,192

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

qwen

Released

Aug 2024

Training cutoff

Mar 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Qwen VL Plus

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.
  • Multimodal pipelines mixing text + images.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Qwen VL Plus costs roughly $27 per month. Input is $0.14 /1M tokens and output is $0.41 /1M tokens.
Qwen VL Plus has a 131,072-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,576 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Qwen VL Plus supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Qwen VL Plus was released in August 2024, with training data cut off around March 2024.
Models in a similar class include Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct, Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking, Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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