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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 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.
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 · 7 months ago

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

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
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B InstructAvailable
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B128K$0.150$1.20Available
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B128K$0.530$2.66Available
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking131K$0.117$1.36Current
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct131K$0.400$1.60Available
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking131K$0.400$4.00Available
Qwen3 Coder Plus1.0M$0.650$3.25Available
Qwen3 Max262K$0.359$1.43Available
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen3 Coder Flash1.0M$0.195$0.975Available

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