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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon...

Model facts

Context window
262K tokens
Maximum output
33K tokens
Cheapest paid input
$0.117 per 1M tokens
Cheapest paid output
$0.455 per 1M tokens
Open weights
yes
Providers
2

Capabilities and modalities

tool calling, structured output, attachments, temperature control, open weights, text, image.

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.

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

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ConfigurationAAICodingMathOutput tokens/s
default8.2not measured27.3not measured

Observed price history

  • 2026-08-24: $0.117 input / $0.455 output per 1M tokens

API providers

  • OpenRouter — model id qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct; $0.117 input / $0.455 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
  • Arena — model id qwen3-vl-8b-instruct; not published input / not published output per 1M tokens; provider documentation