Qwen VL Plus

Alibaba Qwen chatvisiontool_usecode

API ID: qwen/qwen-vl-plus

Input Price
$0.14
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.41
/1M tokens

About Qwen VL Plus

Qwen VL Plus is Alibaba's balanced vision-language model, offering good multimodal capability at accessible pricing. The model processes text and images effectively, enabling practical multimodal applications without premium costs. Qwen VL Plus excels at image description, basic visual question answering, and document understanding tasks. It features efficient inference suitable for production deployments. For developers building multimodal applications with cost constraints, Qwen VL Plus provides practical vision-language capability. It's particularly valuable for content moderation, document processing, and applications requiring image understanding at scale.

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Price Ranking
#687 lowest price among 950 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
131k
Max Output
8k
Release Date
2025-02-05
Capabilities
chat vision tool_use code
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.18
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$1.64
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$5.73
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$7.99
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each

Alibaba Qwen Model Lineup

Compare all models from Alibaba Qwen to find the best fit

Model Input Output Context Capabilities
Qwen VL Plus Current Free Free 131k chat vision tool_use code
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Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B Free Free 8k chat code
Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct Free Free 64k chat vision code
Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct Free Free 64k chat vision code

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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with Qwen VL Plus API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen-vl-plus",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)