Qwen: Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct
Qwen2.5-VL 7B is a compact vision-language model at a low price point, but without benchmark data it's difficult to recommend for business workflows beyond basic image-understanding tasks.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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Qwen2.5 VL 7B is a multimodal LLM from the Qwen Team with the following key enhancements: - SoTA understanding of images of various resolution & ratio: Qwen2.5-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance on visual understanding benchmarks, including MathVista, DocVQA, RealWorldQA, MTVQA, etc. - Understanding videos of 20min+: Qwen2.5-VL can understand videos over 20 minutes for high-quality video-based question answering, dialog, content creation, etc. - Agent that can operate your mobiles, robots, etc.: with the abilities of complex reasoning and decision making, Qwen2.5-VL can be integrated with devices like mobile phones, robots, etc., for automatic operation based on visual environment and text instructions. - Multilingual Support: to serve global users, besides English and Chinese, Qwen2.5-VL now supports the understanding of texts in different languages inside images, including most European languages, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, etc. For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo. Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen |
| Parameters | 7B |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
| Output | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 13, 2026 7:52 pm