Deprecated on Apr 16, 2026. 4 providers still list it at the prices below.

Qwen3 VL 8B InstructDeprecated

AlibabaReleased Aug 19, 2025

Vision Tool use Structured output

Compare Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Count tokens for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Context

262K

Max output

33K

Serving providers

Cheapest input

$0.08 /1M

On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis

Headline indices

Intelligence Index

7.3

of 100

Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants

Benchmark	Best score	Effort	Cost / task
CritPt	0%	default	—
EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 2026	2.2	default	—
GPQA Diamond	43%	default	—
Humanity's Last Exam	3%	default	—
IFBench	32%	default	—
LiveCodeBench	33%	default	—
Long-Context Reasoning	17%	default	—
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 2026	69%	default	—
MMMU-Pro	47%	default	—
Omniscience	-51.9	default	—
Omniscience Accuracy	0.2	default	—
Omniscience Non Hallucination	0.1	default	—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 2026	17%	—	—
TerminalBench Hard	2%	default	—
τ²-bench	29%	default	—

Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $0.08 to $0.25 per 1M tokens across 4 providers, so the dearest route costs 212% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving provider

Input /1M

Output /1M

Endpoints

NovitaCheapest

$0.08

$0.50

Standardnovita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Component	Unit	Standard
Text input	/1M tok	$0.08
Text output	/1M tok	$0.50

Together AI

$0.18

$0.68

Fireworks AI

$0.20

OpenRouter

$0.25

$0.75

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens

Input Output

Input down 60% since first tracked

Cost calculator

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Input tokens / call

Output tokens / call

Calls / month

Serving provider

$56

estimated / month

Model IDs

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novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instructtogether_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instructfireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instructqwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Frequently asked questions

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct pricing, context and availability

Is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct still available?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct was deprecated on 2026-04-16, but 4 serving providers still list it.

How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.08 per 1M input tokens from Novita, and $0.20 per 1M output tokens from Fireworks AI. Across 4 serving providers, input prices range from $0.08 to $0.25 per 1M tokens.

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

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct accepts up to 262K tokens of context and can return up to 33K output tokens.

Which providers serve Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is available from 4 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Novita is currently the cheapest.

What can Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct do?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct supports image input (vision), tool use and structured output.

Other Alibaba models

compare pricing across the Alibaba lineup

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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026

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