Qwen VL Plus — Alibaba | Modeldex

Qwen VL Plus

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Qwen's Enhanced Large Visual Language Model. Significantly upgraded for detailed recognition capabilities and text recognition abilities, supporting ultra-high pixel resolutions up to millions of pixels and extreme aspect ratios for...

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VisionBudget

Knowledge cutoff

Mar 31, 2025(1.1 years ago)

API release

Feb 5, 2025(1.2 years ago)

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

History

Qwen VL Plus became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-02-05.

Training & availability

Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-31 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 131K tokens.
Input modalities: text, image.

Recommended for: vision, cheap.

Limitations

The knowledge cutoff is 12 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.

Pricing

Input: $0.1365 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.4095 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-vl-plus",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.137/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $0.409/1M

Input cost

$0.683

5.0M × $0.137/1M

Output cost

$0.819

2.0M × $0.409/1M

Total / month

$1.5

$18.02 / year

Providers & performance

1 provider

Multi-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.

Provider	Throughput	Latency (TTFT)	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Context	Quant	Supports
Alibaba	86tok/s	522ms	$0.137	$0.409	131K	—	json

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Budget pricing

Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.