Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
qwen3-vl-flash- Released
- Jan 22, 2026
- Version
- Qwen3 VL Flash
- License
- Unknown
QwenQwen3 VL Flash
Qwen3 VL Flash is an Alibaba Qwen model for multimodal reasoning and tool use.
- Token context
- 262K tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Jan 22, 2026
Providers & Pricing
Estimate workload cost →| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Alibaba Cloud Model StudioAvailable | $0.15 | $1.50 | — | — | Sep 3, 2026 | Provider-reported |
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Token context
- 262K tokens
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- Unknown
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Vision
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Capabilities
- chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, tools, vision
This page represents one developer model product. Dated API snapshots, serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach as versioned aliases or provider details and never create duplicate public model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasesqwen3-vl-flash, qwen3-vl-flash-2026-01-22
Explicit Unknowns
- Maximum output
- Architecture
- Tokenizer
- Knowledge cutoff
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
Comparable Peers
Related Model Comparisons
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|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle DeepMind | cross-developer peerstext |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek | cross-developer peerstext |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | Grok 4.6xAI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | Qwen3.8 MaxQwen | family variantsimage, text, video |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  Kimi K3Moonshot AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  MiniMax M3MiniMax | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  GLM 5.3Z.ai | cross-developer peerstext |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  Hy4 previewTencent | cross-developer peerstext |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | Seed 2.1 ProByteDance Seed | cross-developer peersimage, text, video |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  Mistral Large 3Mistral AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | cross-developer peersimage, text | |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  Nova 2 LiteAmazon | cross-developer peersimage, text, video |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | cross-developer peersimage, text | |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  ERNIE 5.1Baidu | cross-developer peerstext |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  Phi-4 ReasoningMicrosoft | cross-developer peerstext |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs |  Sonar ProPerplexity | cross-developer peerstext |
Qwen3 VL FlashQwen | vs | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Questions
Qwen3 VL Flash FAQs
What is Qwen3 VL Flash?+
Qwen3 VL Flash is an Alibaba Qwen model for multimodal reasoning and tool use. It is developed by Qwen and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Qwen3 VL Flash support?+
Qwen3 VL Flash's current record lists Text, Image, and Video as input and Text as output.
How much context does Qwen3 VL Flash support?+
The current record lists a 262K-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.
Is Qwen3 VL Flash available through an API?+
Qwen3 VL Flash is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
How much does Qwen3 VL Flash cost through an API?+
The lowest directly sourced prices currently attached to Qwen3 VL Flash are $0.15 per million input tokens through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and $1.50 per million output tokens through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Prices are provider-specific and should be checked against each cited observation date.
What capabilities and tasks does Qwen3 VL Flash support?+
Qwen3 VL Flash's recorded capabilities are chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, tools, and vision. Its supported tasks are image, reasoning, text, and video.
Can Qwen3 VL Flash be self-hosted?+
Qwen3 VL Flash is not marked as an open-weight model. Self-hosting is marked as unsupported, with no license recorded.
Does Qwen3 VL Flash have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are qwen3-vl-flash and qwen3-vl-flash-2026-01-22.
Which models can Qwen3 VL Flash be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Grok 4.6. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →
How current is the Model Markets record for Qwen3 VL Flash?+
Qwen3 VL Flash was last verified Sep 3, 2026 from Qwen's primary source, “Qwen3 VL Flash model and pricing | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.” The evidence is classified as official fact.