Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 565 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.080 input and $0.500 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a compact vision model with tool use and a 256K context at very low pricing, but intelligence and coding benchmarks are limited, suiting only lightweight tasks.
Assessed May 31, 2026
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Performance Profile
How Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct compares
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct ranks #239 of 370 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #253 of 307 for coding, #206 of 282 for agentic tasks. Its 256K-token context window is larger than 71% of the models we list. At $0.08 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 69% of comparable models.
About Qwen: 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..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | October 14, 2025 |
| Context Length | 256,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.08 | $0.000080 |
| Output | $0.50 | $0.000500 |
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Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
How much does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct has a context window of 256,000 tokens (256K).
Is Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct ranks #253 of 307 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct do?
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is developed by Qwen and was released on October 14, 2025.
