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Tongyi Embedding Vision Flash embeddings
Tongyi Embedding Vision Flash is a current embedding model from Alibaba Cloud, called by API as tongyi-embedding-vision-flash. It returns 768-dimension vectors by default and accepts up to 1,024 input tokens, for text, image and video input. The first-party list price is $0.09 per 1M input tokens.
CurrentModel id: tongyi-embedding-vision-flash
- Default dims
- 768
- Max input
- 1,024 tok
- Price / 1M
- $0.09
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video
Dimensions
Flexible output size- 768default
Default output: 768 dimensions.
Alibaba Cloud documents shorter output vectors for this model (Matryoshka-style), so you can store smaller embeddings by asking for fewer dimensions instead of re-embedding with another model.
Pricing
- Per 1M input tokens
- $0.09
- Batch, per 1M
- Not stated
Singapore (International) text price; image and video input is $0.03 per 1M tokens, with 1 million free tokens for 90 days.
Usage
The sources read for this directory publish no copyable snippet for Tongyi Embedding Vision Flash. Call it with the model id tongyi-embedding-vision-flash as shown in the provider docs linked under Sources.
Worth knowing
Lower-cost independent multimodal embedding model sharing the Vision Plus limits in the docs table (1,024-token text, Chinese and English).
Release date not stated in the sources. Multilingual: not stated.
FAQ
How many dimensions does Tongyi Embedding Vision Flash output?
Default output: 768 dimensions. Alibaba Cloud documents shorter output vectors for this model (Matryoshka-style), so you can store smaller embeddings by asking for fewer dimensions instead of re-embedding with another model.
What is the max input length of Tongyi Embedding Vision Flash?
1,024 tokens per input, per Alibaba Cloud's documentation. Longer text has to be chunked before you embed it.
How much does Tongyi Embedding Vision Flash cost?
The first-party list price is $0.09 per 1M input tokens. Singapore (International) text price; image and video input is $0.03 per 1M tokens, with 1 million free tokens for 90 days. Source: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing.
What can Tongyi Embedding Vision Flash embed?
Text, image and video input, per the provider.
Sources
Last verified from the pages below.
- Model Studio embedding docs - alibabacloud.com
- Model Studio pricing - alibabacloud.com
More Alibaba Cloud embedding models
Default dimensions, max input tokens and list price per 1M tokens.
- Qwen3.7 Text Embedding1,024 dims - 128,000 tokens - $0.07
- Qwen3.7 Text Embedding Flashdims not stated - 128,000 tokens - Not stated
- Text Embedding V41,024 dims - 8,192 tokens - $0.07
- Text Embedding V31,024 dims - 8,192 tokens - $0.07
- Tongyi Embedding Vision Plus1,152 dims - 1,024 tokens - $0.09
- Qwen3-VL Embedding2,560 dims - 32,000 tokens - $0.10
- Multimodal Embedding V11,024 dims - 512 tokens - Not stated
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