How much does Qwen3-VL Plus cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen3-VL Plus costs about $300.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.20 per 1M input tokens, $1.60 per 1M output tokens).

Does Qwen3-VL Plus support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Qwen3-VL Plus.

How long is Qwen3-VL Plus's context window?

Qwen3-VL Plus accepts up to 262,144 tokens (262K) of context and returns up to 32,768 tokens per response.

Qwen3-VL Plus API Pricing

Alibaba · released Sep 23, 2025 · 262K context · API model ID qwen3-vl-plus

Qwen3-VL Plus by Alibaba API pricing: $0.20 per 1M input tokens and $1.60 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Qwen3-VL Plus prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.20
Output	$1.60
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published
Reasoning output	$4.80

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

$300.00

per month

per day: $10.00
per request: $0.001

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	$300.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$360.00/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$396.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 262,144 tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Input: text, image
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: April 2025
Open weights: No
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: Yes
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 Qwen3-VL Plus cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen3-VL Plus costs about $300.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.20 per 1M input tokens, $1.60 per 1M output tokens).
Does Qwen3-VL Plus support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Qwen3-VL Plus.
How long is Qwen3-VL Plus's context window?: Qwen3-VL Plus accepts up to 262,144 tokens (262K) of context and returns up to 32,768 tokens per response.