Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 256K context window and up to 33K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.117 / 1M input and $1.36 / 1M output. A reasoning-optimized 8B multimodal language model in the Qwen3-VL series, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences.
Capabilities
Input2/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | Batch | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.18 | $2.10 | $0.09 | $1.05 | |
| $0.117 | $1.36 | — | — | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| g2-standard-4 |  GCP | nvidia-l4 | 24 GB | $0.705/hr | us-east4 | |
| g6.xlarge |  AWS | L4 | 22 GB | $0.805/hr | us-east-1 | |
| g2-standard-8 | GCP | nvidia-l4 | 24 GB | $0.851/hr | us-east4 | |
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime | — | — | $0.413 | $4.13 | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime | — | — | $0.688 | $5.50 | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTS | — | — | — | — | Available |
| EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | 1.0M | $0.320 | $1.28 | Available | |
| Qwen3.7 Max | 1.0M | $1.25 | $3.75 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 Max Preview | 262K | $1.04 | $6.24 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 262K | $0.150 | $0.500 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | 262K | $0.140 | $0.450 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | 1.0M | $0.325 | $1.95 | Available | |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | 256K | $0.117 | $1.36 | Current |