Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen-VL
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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen-VL Comparison Table
Evals updated July 24, 2026Pricing updated July 28, 2026
| Property | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Qwen-VL |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Qwen | |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Aug 2023 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | — |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $2.00 | |
| Output $/1M | $12.00 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks | ||
| Overall | 86.3% | Not evaluated |
| Object Detection | 67.4% | – |
| Counting | 71.6% | – |
| Identification | 100.0% | – |
| OCR | 92.6% | – |
| Data Extraction | 94.8% | – |
| Reasoning | 91.3% | – |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0086 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 7.4s | – |
Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen-VL: Overview
Gemini 3.1 Pro is a proprietary multimodal model from Google’s Gemini 3 series, released in early 2026 and designed for advanced reasoning across large multimodal datasets. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and documents, supporting up to a 1-million-token input context with up to 64k output tokens. Compared with Gemini 3 Pro, it improves long-context synthesis and multi-step reasoning, enabling more reliable analysis of large documents, datasets, and software codebases.
The model also advances visual understanding and grounding, allowing it to interpret UI screenshots, diagrams, and real-world scenes while referencing specific regions within images or video. These capabilities make Gemini 3.1 Pro well suited for multimodal workflows involving document processing, interface analysis, robotics research, and complex visual reasoning.
Qwen-VL is a large vision-language model released in August 2023 by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. Built on the 7-billion-parameter Qwen language model with an added visual receptor based on Openclip ViT-bigG, the model accepts images, text, and bounding box coordinates as inputs, and can produce both text and bounding boxes as outputs. Qwen-VL processes images at 448×448 resolution, higher than the 224×224 input used by many contemporaneous vision-language models, which supports finer-grained visual recognition and text-heavy tasks such as OCR. This design supports a range of multimodal tasks in a single model, including image captioning, visual question answering, visual grounding, text recognition, and image-conditioned dialogue, with native support for English, Chinese, and multilingual conversation.
At release, Qwen-VL achieved competitive results against contemporaneous vision-language models across zero-shot captioning, general VQA, text-oriented VQA, and referring expression comprehension benchmarks. A chat-tuned variant, Qwen-VL-Chat, is optimized for interactive use with instruction-following and multi-turn conversation. The model is distributed under the Tongyi Qianwen License, a custom license from Alibaba Cloud with specific terms that should be reviewed prior to commercial use. Qwen-VL is the first generation of Alibaba's open multimodal series and precedes the later Qwen2-VL and Qwen2.5-VL releases.