Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Parameters
- 8.8B total
- Released
- 2025-10-14
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- apache-2.0
alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct · also seen as qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct, accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-10-14
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- apache-2.0
- Input
- Image, Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 262,144 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 262,144
- Providers
- 8 + 2 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.08–$0.25 in · $0.20–$0.75 out per 1M tokens · 7 of 8 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-11-25
- Knowledge cutoff
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
- Parameters
- 8.8B total
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.08 in / $0.50 out per 1M tokens at Novita AI on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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