Alibaba Qwen qwen3-vl-plus API pricing

Direct answer

As of June 27, 2026, Alibaba Qwen's qwen3-vl-plus lists at $2.46 per 1M input tokens and $7.37 per 1M output tokens in the ByteCosts pricing index (A confidence, source last checked 2026-06-27), with a 262K-token context window, which is a planning estimate you should verify against the provider source before billing, because output volume, retries, and prompt-cache hit rate move the real qwen3-vl-plus bill far more than the headline input rate.

qwen3-vl-plus price card

List prices per million tokens from the ByteCosts pricing index, graded A confidence. Output tokens are the expensive side of almost every bill.

Context window and output limits

What qwen3-vl-plus can hold in a single request, and where ByteCosts stops short of a source-backed claim.

• Context window: 262K tokens of combined input plus output per request.
• Maximum output tokens: not a field in this committed pricing record. ByteCosts only states source-backed numbers, so treat the provider documentation as authoritative for the per-response output cap.
• The large 262K window suits long-document, whole-repository, and multi-turn agent workloads, but long prompts multiply the input-token line, so cache the shared prefix where you can.

What it costs at real workloads

Each row is computed from this record's committed input and output token prices with the ByteCosts cost engine. Assumptions are shown inline.

Best-fit workloads for qwen3-vl-plus

Where this price profile is cost-effective, and where it is not, derived from the committed input, output, cache, and context fields.

• Good fit: Balanced chat and tool-calling where prompts and completions are similar in size, since the $2.46 input and $7.37 output rates are close in scale.
• Good fit: Long-context tasks that need the 262K window in one request.
• Not ideal: Workloads that resend a large shared prefix on every call, because this record has no committed prompt-cache discount to amortize that prefix.

qwen3-vl-plus pricing across providers

qwen3-vl-plus is listed by 2 providers in the ByteCosts index. Per-million-token list prices, lowest input first.

When qwen3-vl-plus is cost-effective

qwen3-vl-plus ranks 7 of 7 Alibaba records by combined list price ($9.83 for 1M input plus 1M output tokens). That puts it in the higher-priced third of this provider's committed records.

No source-backed cache-read discount is committed for this record, so the page does not assume cache savings.

The committed context window is 262K; use that as the only long-context signal on this page, not as a quality or latency claim.

Cheaper alternatives

Records with a lower combined input plus output list price than this one. Same-provider and same-model cross-provider records are preferred where available.

Evidence, freshness, and limitations

ByteCosts grades this Alibaba qwen3-vl-plus row A: From official provider docs (price stated indirectly). The record was first tracked on 2026-05-30 and last checked on 2026-06-27, and the source URL stays attached so you can verify the provider source before a purchasing or architecture decision.

Every number here is a planning estimate, not a quote. Real invoices can differ because taxes, negotiated and volume discounts, minimum commitments, batch and priority tiers, gateway and observability fees, and non-token charges are excluded unless they appear in the committed record. Verify the provider source and quote the last-checked date with any copied figure, because model prices change often.

Hidden costs to watch

Flags attached to this source-backed record. They do not change the list price but they change the effective bill.

• no prompt caching

Frequently asked questions

Cite this page

Alibaba Qwen qwen3-vl-plus API pricing. ByteCosts. Updated 2026-06-27. https://bytecosts.com/pricing/alibaba/qwen3-vl-plus/

Sources

• Alibaba Qwen official source
• ByteCosts methodology

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