Qwen3 VL 8B is Alibaba's language model with a 33K context window and up to 8K output tokens, starting at $0.15 / 1M input and $0.55 / 1M output. An 8B vision-language model from the Qwen3 series, providing capable multimodal understanding for image and text tasks at a mid-range parameter scale.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-8b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window33K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesImage
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#340
Math Index
#197
MMLU-Pro
#188
GPQA
#345
HLE
#467
LiveCodeBench
#201
IFBench
#261
Time to First Token
#470
SciCode
#395
AIME 2025
#197
LCR
#263
TerminalBench Hard
#295
TAU2
#309
Output TPS
#99

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text·
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
LlamaGate
llamagate/qwen3-vl-8b
$0.15$0.55

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 VL 8B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hr
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hr
7 more instances can run Qwen3 VL 8B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$2.00$6.00Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASRAvailable
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR FiletransAvailable
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR StreamingAvailable
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime$0.450$4.50Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime$0.800$6.40Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSAvailable
Qwen Image 3Available
Qwen Image 3.0 ProAvailable
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B InstructAvailable
Qwen3 VL 8B33K$0.150$0.550Current

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-vl-8b
llamagate/qwen3-vl-8b
qwen3-vl-8b-reasoning