How much does Qwen-VL OCR cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen-VL OCR costs about $45.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.07 per 1M input tokens, $0.16 per 1M output tokens).

Does Qwen-VL OCR support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Qwen-VL OCR.

How long is Qwen-VL OCR's context window?

Qwen-VL OCR accepts up to 34,096 tokens (34K) of context and returns up to 4,096 tokens per response.

Qwen-VL OCR API Pricing

Alibaba · released Oct 28, 2024 · 34K context · API model ID qwen-vl-ocr

Qwen-VL OCR by Alibaba API pricing: $0.07 per 1M input tokens and $0.16 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Qwen-VL OCR prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.07
Output	$0.16
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published

Alibaba's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$45.00

per month

per day: $1.50
per request: $0.00015

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$45.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$96.00/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$114.60/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 34,096 tokens
Max output: 4,096 tokens
Input: text, image
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: April 2024
Open weights: No
Tool calling: No
Reasoning: No
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Qwen-VL OCR cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen-VL OCR costs about $45.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.07 per 1M input tokens, $0.16 per 1M output tokens).
Does Qwen-VL OCR support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Qwen-VL OCR.
How long is Qwen-VL OCR's context window?: Qwen-VL OCR accepts up to 34,096 tokens (34K) of context and returns up to 4,096 tokens per response.