Qwen3-VL-Flash

by Alibaba

Qwen3-VL-Flash serves as the fast tier of Alibaba's Qwen3-VL vision-language series, the multimodal line the Qwen team introduced in late 2025. It keeps the family's hybrid thinking design, letting callers toggle step-by-step reasoning on or off per request, and processes text, images, and video frames within a 262K-token context window. Alibaba tuned the Flash tier to deliver much of the Plus model's visual quality at lower latency and cost, which makes it a natural fit for high-volume multimodal pipelines. It handles text recognition across receipts, certificates, and forms, chart and table extraction, object localization, and UI screenshot understanding, with tool calling and structured output for downstream automation.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
262K
Max output
33K
Input price
$0.05 /1M
Output price
$0.40 /1M
  • EU residency available
  • Zero data retention via Enterprise
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Qwen3-VL-Flash runs on 2 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
EUEnterpriseNo$0.05$0.40
MultiEnterpriseNo$0.02$0.22

Uptime and availability

Qwen3-VL-Flash runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

99.46%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Qwen3-VL-Flash has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Alibaba Cloud β€” GermanyπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Available via Opper Enterprise contract.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Third-party access
None disclosed
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable β€” data stays in EU

Alibaba Cloud β€” GermanyπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Available via Opper Enterprise contract.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Third-party access
None disclosed
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call Qwen3-VL-Flash through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "alibaba:eu/qwen3-vl-flash",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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