Qwen3 VL Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3 VL Instruct is a text model by Alibaba. One provider serves it: Vercel AI Gateway, at $0.88 /1M.
Lowest price$0.88/1Mat Vercel AI Gateway
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers1
Context262KMax output 262K
How Qwen3 VL Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.88 /1M against a median of $1.10; 47% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen3 VL Instruct prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.20/1M | $0.88/1M | $0.11/1M | 262K |
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 262K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 262K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Sep 23, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Monthly searches
- 15K
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
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The lowest price for Qwen3 VL Instruct is $0.88 /1M, at Vercel AI Gateway.
Qwen3 VL Instruct reads up to 262K tokens per request and writes up to 262K.
We have not found Qwen3 VL Instruct's weights published by its maker.
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