Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Alibaba · Multimodal · Released Oct 2025
An 8-billion-parameter multimodal vision-language model from Alibaba that processes text, images, and video with a 131k-token context window.
- Strengths
- Smaller model size makes it efficient for deployment while maintaining multimodal capabilities across text, images, and video.
- Best for
- Multimodal tasks where model size and inference speed matter more than maximum capability, or as a faster alternative to larger Qwen3 VL variants.
- Limitations
- Less capable than the larger 30B and 32B VL models in the Qwen3 lineup; lacks the extended reasoning features of the Thinking variants.
Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.75
Cached input / 1M
$0.12
Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in increased 113.7% out increased 64.8%
- 90d
- in increased 113.7% out increased 64.8%
- 1y
- in increased 212.5% out increased 50.0%
- Since launch
- in increased 212.5% out increased 50.0%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Oct 2026 | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.12 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 3 Jul 2026 | $0.117 | $0.455 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.08 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |