Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)

AlibabaMCP Tool Call

alibaba/qwen3-vl-flashClosed API

Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks

Benchmark Pricing$0.02 / 1M in$0.21 / 1M out$0.00 cache read

Context: 262,144 tokens•Max Output: 32,768 tokens•Released: 2025-10-15

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window262,144262.1K tokens

Max Output32,76832.8K tokens

LicenseProprietaryCloud API only

Input Modalities

TextVision

Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)

Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 262,144 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.ALIBABA_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "alibaba/qwen3-vl-flash",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);