Alibaba: qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15 API
A production-grade snapshot of the Qwen3-VL Flash model released by Alibaba Cloud on October 15, 2025. Positioned as the "lightweight flagship" of the Qwen3 vision series, it utilizes a 30B parameter MoE architecture to deliver maximum cost-efficiency for large-scale industrial applications. This October 15th update specifically optimized real-time video stream analysis and multilingual OCR in complex environments. It maintains ultra-low Time-to-First-Token (TTFT) while managing interleaved multimodal contexts of up to 256,144 tokens. It is the premier engine for building real-time visual assistants, automated moderation systems, and low-power visual agents.
- Context window: 262,144 tokens
- Max output: 8,192 tokens
- Input: text, image
- Output: text
- Tool calling: Supported
- Released: 2025-10-14
- Knowledge cutoff: 2025-08-31
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the context window of qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15?
qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15 supports a context window of up to 262,144 tokens.
Does qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15 support function calling?
Yes. qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15 supports tool / function calling.
What is the knowledge cutoff of qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15?
The knowledge cutoff of qwen3-vl-flash-2025-10-15 is 2025-08-31.