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  1. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibabaRemove
  2. DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekRemove
  3. Claude Fable 5.1AnthropicRemove
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct vs deepseek-v4.1-flash vs claude-fable-5.1
AttributeQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructDeepSeek V4.1 Flashdeepseek-v4.1-flashClaude Fable 5.1claude-fable-5.1
Pricing
Input$0.30 / 1M$0.30 / 1M$10.00 / 1M
Output$1.50 / 1M$1.20 / 1M$50.00 / 1M
Cache Write (5m)$0.30 / 1M$0.30 / 1M$12.50 / 1M
Cache Write (1h)$0.30 / 1M$0.30 / 1M$20.00 / 1M
Cache Read$0.30 / 1M$0.30 / 1M$1.00 / 1M
Web Search$0 / 1M$0 / 1M$0 / 1M
Context
Max context131.1K1M1M
Max outputN/AN/AN/A
Capabilities
VisionYesYesYes
Function CallingYesYesYes
JSON ModeYesYesYes
StreamingYesYesYes
Catalogue
ProviderAlibabaDeepSeekAnthropic
Categorychatchatchat
Charge typePay As You GoPay As You GoPay As You Go
Released
Description
SummaryQwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that combines strong language generation with image and video understanding, aimed at general vision-language tasks like VQA, document parsing, chart/table extraction, and multilingual OCR. It features robust perception, spatial grounding, and long-context visual comprehension, and supports agent-style workflows such as multi-image dialogue, video timeline alignment, GUI control, and visual-to-code assistance. With competitive benchmark performance and strong text-only ability, it's well suited for production uses across document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial reasoning, and vision-language research.DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a cost-efficient sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model in DeepSeek's V4.1 family, optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. Despite its efficiency-focused positioning, DeepSeek reports that it surpasses the previous V4 Pro in performance, inference speed, and overall task completion time. The model is particularly strong at long-horizon, multi-step execution, making it well suited for coding agents, complex problem solving, and autonomous workflows that must reliably carry tasks through to completion.Claude Fable 5.1 is an upgraded version of Fable 5, delivering broad improvements with particularly strong gains in agentic coding, long-running workflows, and professional knowledge work. It excels at large code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, financial analysis, and complex analytical tasks. Compared with Fable 5, it also produces more concise plans and summaries while maintaining strong performance across extended tasks, making it a natural upgrade for existing Fable workflows and a strong option alongside Opus 5 for reasoning-intensive applications.