Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Summary
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is an open-weight language model from Alibaba (Qwen), released on 14 Oct 2025. It accepts images and text and generates text, with a 262K-token context window and up to 33K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.46 per million output tokens (OpenRouter), across 1 provider we track. It is scheduled for retirement on 9 Oct 2026.
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...
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Alibaba (Qwen) |
|---|---|
| Release date | 14 Oct 2025 [OpenRouter] |
| Status | Generally available |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | apache-2.0 [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 8.8B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 262K (262,144 tokens) [OpenRouter] |
| Max output | 33K tokens [OpenRouter] |
| Input | Images and text [OpenRouter] |
| Output | Text [OpenRouter] |
| Reasoning mode | No [OpenRouter] |
| Tool calling | Yes [OpenRouter] |
| Structured output | Yes [OpenRouter] |
| Retirement date | 9 Oct 2026 [OpenRouter] |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct [Hugging Face] |
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct | $0.12 | $0.46 | – | 131K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K) and can generate up to 32,768 tokens in a single response, according to OpenRouter.
How much does the Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API cost?
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is listed from $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.46 per million output tokens (OpenRouter). Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct open source?
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on 14 Oct 2025, according to OpenRouter.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.