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Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking


Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking is Alibaba logoAlibaba's language model with a 131K context window and up to 33K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.117 / 1M input and $1.36 / 1M output. A thinking-optimized 8B vision-language model from the Qwen3 VL series, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences.
Spec
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-8b-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Max Output33K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters8B
Release Date · 6 months ago

Capabilities

Input2/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities1/13
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

ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking
$0.117$1.36
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-vl-8b-thinking
$0.180$2.10$0.090$1.05

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B128K$0.060$0.090Available
Qwen3 9.23 MaxAvailable
Qwen 7 28 Flash998KAvailable
Qwen 4 28 Plus129KAvailable
Qwen 3 32B128KAvailable
Qwen3.5-Flash1.0M$0.065$0.260Available
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-151.0M$0.260$1.56Available
Qwen 1 25 Plus129KAvailable
Qwen3.5 Max258KAvailable
Qwen3.6 Plus1.0M$0.325$1.95Available
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking131K$0.117$1.36Current

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