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
#366
Math Index
#197
MMLU-Pro
#188
GPQA
#355
HLE
#486
LiveCodeBench
#201
IFBench
#262
Time to First Token
#488
SciCode
#415
AIME 2025
#197
LCR
#298
TerminalBench Hard
#296
TAU2
#310
Output TPS
#95

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)
US Dollar ($)
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 ASR————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Filetrans————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Streaming————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime——$0.230$0.930Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime——$0.800$6.40Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTS————Available
Qwen Audio 3.1 Plus Realtime——$0.800$6.40Available
Qwen Image 3————Available
Qwen Image 3.0 Pro————Available
Qwen3 VL 8B—33K$0.150$0.550Current

Model IDs

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