Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
ActiveQwen3-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...
Overview
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...
History
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-10-14.
Training & availability
Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 131K tokens.
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Input modalities: image, text.
Recommended for: vision, cheap.
Pricing
- Input: $0.0800 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.5000 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Providers & performance
4 providersMulti-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.
| Provider | Throughput | Latency (TTFT) | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Context | Quant | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | 113tok/s | 195ms | $0.117 | $0.455 | 131K | — | tools · json |
| Parasail | 50tok/s | 375ms | $0.25 | $0.75 | 262K | bf16 | tools · json |
| AtlasCloud | 43tok/s |
Popularity
Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
- —
- Effective price
- $0.395/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $0.08/1M in
$0.5/1M out
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