Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a large language model API from Qwen (Alibaba), part of its Qwen3 VL model family. At $0.080 per million input tokens and $0.500 per million output tokens, it sits in the budget tier — among the cheaper options for high-throughput or cost-sensitive workloads. Output tokens cost about 6× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. A large 256K-token context window (≈384 pages of text) lets it take in whole books, large codebases, or lengthy transcripts in a single call. Beyond plain text it also accepts Image input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 8 (F grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.

• Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Input price: $0.08/M tokens
• Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Output price: $0.5/M tokens
• Context window: 256,000 tokens
• Provider: Qwen (Alibaba)
• Model family: Qwen3 VL
• Modalities: Image, Text
• Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily