expectedAlibabaExpected: Q3 2026

Qwen-VL 3 API

Next multimodal Qwen with vision. Expected to be among the strongest open-weight vision-language models.

What we know

Next multimodal Qwen with vision. Expected to be among the strongest open-weight vision-language models.

Why it matters: Developers building OCR / document-understanding pipelines track Qwen-VL closely.

Expected pricing: ~$1 / $4 per 1M tokens

Current best equivalent

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Qwen Max

Current Qwen tier on SkillBoss — stand-in until Qwen-VL 3 ships directly.

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We'll auto-switch your API calls to Qwen-VL 3 the moment it launches — no code changes required.

Call it with curl

curl -X POST https://api.skillboss.co/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SKILLBOSS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "skill_id": "qwen/qwen-max",
    "input": {
      "prompt": "Say hello from Qwen-VL 3 — routed via SkillBoss"
    }
  }'

Alternate options

ModelSkill IDTradeoff
Gemini 2.5 Progoogle/gemini-2.5-proBest vision-language alternative today

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