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RETIRING OCT 10 2026CHEAP VISION256K CONTEXTBATCH -50%TEXT + VISION

Qwen3 VL Flash API Pricing

Retiring October 10, 2026: Alibaba has announced that qwen3-vl-flash goes offline on that date, after which calls fail. Alibaba recommends Qwen3.6 Flash instead. Qwen3 VL Flash is Qwen cheap vision-language tier. Baseline rates are $0.05/M input and $0.4/M output. Pulled directly from alibabacloud.com and re-verified against the pricing page.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.05/M
Source alibabacloud.com flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$0.40/M
Context 256K flat
Cache N/A
$0.05/M
Cache vendor row not listed
Effective - agentic blend
$0.078/M
92/8 split - no cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with Qwen3 VL Flash rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions to compare it with sibling models.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

VISION

Invoice extraction

$0.00062/doc
6,000 in - 800 out~161,290 units/$100
CHATBOT

Support assistant

$0.00036/turn
2,500 in - 600 out~273,972 units/$100
RAG

Knowledge base answer

$0.00085/query
9,000 in - 1,000 out~117,647 units/$100
BULK

Image QA review

$0.00031/item
3,000 in - 400 out~322,580 units/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

Paste text. See tokens. See cost.

What's a token →
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type

Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.

Characters 383
Words 60
Tokens (estimated) 73 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.000004 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00003 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Up against the shelf.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Qwen3 VL Flash Current $0.05 $0.40 $0.078 agentic 92/8 256K Vision and document understanding
Qwen3 Max $1.20 $6.00 $1.58 deprecated · +20× 252K Frontier Qwen reasoning
Qwen 3.5 Plus $0.40 $2.40 $0.56 +7.2× 256K General Qwen production workloads
Qwen 3.5 Flash $0.10 $0.40 $0.124 +59% 1M Bulk chat and long-context RAG
Qwen3 VL Plus $0.20 $1.60 $0.312 +4.0× 256K Vision and document understanding
GPT-5.4 mini $0.75 cache $0.075 $4.50 $0.541 +6.9× 400K Subagents and lightweight coding
Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75 cache $0.075 $3.75 $0.481 +6.2× · promo 1M Mainstream multimodal work

Frequently asked.

Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions.

Q · 01 When does Qwen3 VL Flash stop working? +
Alibaba announced on June 8, 2026 that qwen3-vl-flash goes offline on October 10, 2026 (00:00, UTC+8) in the Beijing and Singapore regions; after that, calls fail. Its notice recommends Qwen3.6 Flash. Until then the model bills at the rates on this page.
Q · 02 What is Qwen3 VL Flash priced at? +
Qwen3 VL Flash is shown at $0.05/M input and $0.4/M output. The page stores USD per-million-token baseline pricing from alibabacloud.com.
Q · 03 Does this page include higher context pricing tiers? +
Alibaba publishes tiered pricing for several Qwen models. This page uses the baseline Singapore / International tier from the queue and snapshot; higher-token tiers are noted in the source page and can be added as a variant later.
Q · 04 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
No separate cache-read price is published for this row, so the calculator treats cached input as $0.05/M.
Q · 05 How is the effective price calculated? +
AI//COST uses the same 92/8 agentic blend everywhere. For Qwen3 VL Flash, that gives $0.08/M with only documented cache discounts included.
Q · 06 Is there a batch discount? +
Alibaba lists Batch Invocation at 50% off for supported Qwen rows.
Q · 07 Are regional prices different? +
Yes. Alibaba Cloud publishes separate International, Global, US, EU, China (Hong Kong), and Chinese Mainland deployment sections. AI//COST uses the International / Singapore baseline for this queue unless a page explicitly says otherwise.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder · AI//COST · Prices checked by hand against alibabacloud.com · Last verified Jul 11, 2026
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