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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 33K 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
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output33K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
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HuggingFace Downloads (30d)3,765,920
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)23,111,974
Release Date · 11 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#395
Math Index
#204
MMLU-Pro
#235
GPQA
#424
HLE
#514
LiveCodeBench
#210
IFBench
#340
Time to First Token
#462
SciCode
#425
AIME 2025
#204
LCR
#342
TerminalBench Hard
#320
TAU2
#263
Output TPS
#95

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
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
$0.18$0.7$0.09$0.35
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
$0.2$0.2——
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
$0.08$0.5——
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
$0.117$0.455——

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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)
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 Instruct
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct131K$0.104$0.416Available
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
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
qwen3-vl-8b-instruct