Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a compact, affordable multimodal model with vision support, but its intelligence and coding scores are low — suitable only for very lightweight tasks where cost is the primary concern.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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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 temporal reasoning, DeepStack for fine-grained visual-text alignment, and text-timestamp alignment for precise event localization. The model supports a native 256K-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens, and handles both static and dynamic media inputs for tasks like document parsing, visual question answering, spatial reasoning, and GUI control. It achieves text understanding comparable to leading LLMs while expanding OCR coverage to 32 languages and enhancing robustness under varied visual conditions.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Parameters | 8B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.08 | $0.000080 |
| Output | $0.50 | $0.000500 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 13, 2026 7:52 pm