Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Qwen VL Max
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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Qwen VL Max Comparison Table
Evals updated August 6, 2026Pricing updated August 9, 2026
| Property | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Qwen VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Qwen | |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Jul 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 131K |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.300 | |
| Output $/1M | $2.50 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Demo |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | Demo |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Qwen VL Max: Overview
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released on June 17, 2025, is Google DeepMind’s production-ready, efficiency-focused model in the Gemini 2.5 family. It is multimodal, accepting text, images, video, and audio as inputs, with text as the primary output format. The model supports 1 million input tokens and up to 65K output tokens, enabling it to process very large contexts such as books, long video transcripts, or extensive datasets. Its training knowledge extends to January 2025.
Designed as a price-performance leader, Gemini 2.5 Flash balances speed and reasoning power, making it suitable for everyday enterprise and developer use cases without the higher latency and cost of Pro models. It supports advanced workflows like function calling, code execution, search grounding, URL context ingestion, and structured outputs. While efficient and scalable, output length is still limited compared to its input capacity, and multimodal outputs (e.g. image or audio generation) remain restricted to specialized or preview variants.
Qwen-VL-Max is a proprietary vision-language model developed by Alibaba’s QwenLM team. Released on February 1, 2025, it is the flagship offering in the Qwen-VL family and sits above the VL-Plus tier in capability.
The model supports text and image inputs and provides a context window of up to 131,072 tokens (with a maximum input size of 129,024 tokens), according to Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. While the parameter count for VL-Max has not been publicly disclosed, the broader Qwen2.5-VL series includes open-weight models scaling up to 72B parameters.
Qwen-VL-Max is optimized for advanced multimodal applications such as document parsing, visual reasoning, multilingual analysis, and structured data extraction. Unlike the open Qwen2.5-VL variants, VL-Max is not available as open weights.