Qwen 3.7 Flash Just Made Vision-Language Models Free. $0.03 per Million Input, Native Multimodal, 1M Context. The Vision API Market Just Got a New Floor.

Alibaba shipped Qwen 3.7 Flash on July 27, 2026: a native vision-language reasoning model — text, images, video in; text out — built on a 30B-total / 3B-active sparse MoE, with a 1M context window, a 256K thinking budget, and a $0.03 / $0.13 per-million entry-tier price. That is 150x cheaper than GPT-5.6 Vision, 166x cheaper than Claude Opus 5 Vision. The vision API market just had its price umbrella ripped open.