Qwen: Qwen3-VL Plus
qwen/qwen3-vl-plus
Access Qwen3-VL Plus from Qwen using Puter.js AI API.
Get Started// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "qwen/qwen3-vl-plus"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "qwen/qwen3-vl-plus"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3-vl-plus",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3-vl-plus",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
]
}'
Model Card
Qwen3-VL Plus is Alibaba Cloud's hosted vision-language API model in the Qwen3-VL series, offering strong multimodal understanding without requiring self-hosted infrastructure.
It handles a wide range of visual tasks including document parsing, chart analysis, OCR, image reasoning, and GUI interaction for PC and mobile interfaces. With a 262K token context window, it is well suited for processing lengthy documents, multi-page PDFs, and extended visual conversations in a single request. The model supports structured output and tool calling, making it a practical choice for developers building document intelligence pipelines, visual agents, and multimodal data extraction workflows via the OpenAI-compatible Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.
Context Window 262K
tokens
Max Output 33K
tokens
Input Cost $0.2
per million tokens
Output Cost $1.6
per million tokens
Input text, image
modalities
Tool Use Yes
Knowledge Cutoff Apr 2025
Release Date Sep 23, 2025
Model Playground
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This playground uses the Puter.js AI API — no API keys or setup required.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Qwen3-VL Plus by Qwen through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Qwen3-VL Plus to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.2 |
| Output | $1.6 |
Qwen3-VL Plus was created by Qwen and released on Sep 23, 2025.
Qwen3-VL Plus supports a context window of 262K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 524 pages of text.
Qwen3-VL Plus can generate up to 33K tokens in a single response.
Qwen3-VL Plus has a knowledge cutoff date of Apr 2025. This means the model was trained on data available up to that date.
Qwen3-VL Plus accepts the following input types: text, image. It produces: text.
Yes, Qwen3-VL Plus supports tool use (function calling), allowing it to interact with external tools, APIs, and data sources as part of its response flow.
Yes — the Qwen3-VL Plus API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
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