Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 236K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.08 / 1M input and $0.2 / 1M output. An instruction-tuned 8B vision-language model from the Qwen3 series, optimized for conversational multimodal tasks involving text and image inputs.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output236K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
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Release Date · 1 year ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#412
Math Index
#204
MMLU-Pro
#235
GPQA
#435
HLE
#544
LiveCodeBench
#210
IFBench
#341
Time to First Token
#53
SciCode
#455
AIME 2025
#204
LCR
#373
TerminalBench Hard
#321
TAU2
#264
Output TPS
#300

Capabilities

Input2/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
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
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
$0.2$0.2N/A
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
$0.08$0.5N/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
$0.25$0.75$0.12
Together AI logo
Together AI
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
$0.18$0.68N/A

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct, 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 Instruct
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct262K$0.160$0.640Deprecated
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct262K$0.080$0.200Current

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
alibaba-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
huggingface-vlm-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct