Alibaba
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
Model facts
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Maximum output
- 262K tokens
- Cheapest paid input
- $0.117 per 1M tokens
- Cheapest paid output
- $0.455 per 1M tokens
- Open weights
- yes
- Providers
- 4
Capabilities and modalities
tool calling, structured output, attachments, temperature control, open weights, text, image, video.
Local hardware estimate
At 4K context: Q4_K_M 6.3 GiB, Q8_0 10.4 GiB, F16 18.1 GiB working memory.
- Parameters
- 8.8 billion
- Architecture
- qwen3vl
- Model license
- apache-2.0
Planning estimate adapted from the MIT-licensed whichllm estimator using metadata from Hugging Face; not a vendor minimum requirement.
Observed price history
- 2026-08-24: $0.117 input / $0.455 output per 1M tokens
API providers
- Kilo Gateway — model id qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct; $0.117 input / $0.455 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- NovitaAI — model id qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct; $0.08 input / $0.5 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- SiliconFlow — model id Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct; $0.18 input / $0.68 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- SiliconFlow (China) — model id Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct; $0.18 input / $0.68 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation