Gemini 3 Flash vs Qwen-VL
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Gemini 3 Flash vs Qwen-VL Comparison Table
Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 21, 2026
| Property | Gemini 3 Flash | Qwen-VL |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Qwen | |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Dec 2025 | Aug 2023 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | — |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.500 | |
| Output $/1M | $3.00 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Classification | Demo | |
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks | ||
| Overall | 77.2% | Not evaluated |
| Object Detection | 39.3% | – |
| Counting | 67.6% | – |
| Identification | 93.8% | – |
| OCR | 87.6% | – |
| Data Extraction | 96.9% | – |
| Reasoning | 78.3% | – |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0017 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 3.9s | – |
Gemini 3 Flash vs Qwen-VL: Overview
Gemini 3 Flash is a proprietary multimodal large language model developed by Google through Google DeepMind, designed to deliver fast, cost-efficient reasoning across real-time products and developer workflows. Released in December 2025, it is the Flash-tier variant of the Gemini 3 family, balancing low latency with reasoning quality approaching Pro models.
The model supports text, images, audio, and video, with an exceptionally large context window of roughly one million input tokens and outputs up to ~65k tokens. It emphasizes rapid responses for coding, summarization, analysis, and agentic tasks, and exposes configurable “thinking levels” via API to trade speed for deeper reasoning. Today, Gemini 3 Flash positions itself as a high-throughput, production-ready model, serving as the default in the Gemini app and Google Search’s AI Mode, optimized for scalable, interactive AI applications.
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.