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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a large language model from Qwen. It costs $0.117 per million input tokens and $0.455 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262K tokens.

Tool callingStructured outputOpen weightsimage input
Input / 1M tokens
$0.117
Output / 1M tokens
$0.455
Cached input / 1M
-

Not supported

Context window
262K

tokens

Who serves it cheapest

2 hosts serve Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.

Providers serving Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct, cheapest first
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextThroughputUptime 24h
AlibabaCheapest$0.117$0.455131K-100.0%
Parasailbf16$0.250$0.750262K-99.1%

The spread between Alibaba and Parasail is 1.9× for identical weights. Quantization and context limits differ, so check both columns before switching.

About Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon...

Specifications

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct specifications
Model IDqwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
ProviderQwen
Context window262K tokens
Max output33K tokens
Input modalitiesimage, text
Output modalitiestext
Knowledge cutoff-
Open weightsYes - Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
ReleasedOctober 14, 2025

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Frequently asked

How much does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?

$0.117 per million input tokens and $0.455 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

262K tokens, with up to 33K tokens of output per request.

Which provider serves Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cheapest?

Alibaba at $0.117 per million input tokens - 1.9× cheaper than Parasail, the most expensive of the 2 hosts serving it.

Confirm against the source: Qwen official pricing.