Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Qwen (Alibaba) · Open weights · 262K context · released Oct 14, 2025 · checked 7h ago
Ways to buy 2
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen (Alibaba) API The lab's own API | $0.117 | $0.455 | $0.117 / $0.455List price | n/a | List price |
 Parasailbf16 · cached $0.12 | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.25 / $0.75+86% vs list | $0.12 | +86% vs list |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $20.80 direct.
Helicone$20.80+0%
Kong AI Gateway$20.80+0%
LiteLLM$20.80+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$20.80+0%
Cloudflare AI Gateway$21.84+5%
Requesty$21.84+5%
Eden AI$21.94+5.5%
OpenRouter$21.94+5.5%
No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
Related models
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| Qwen3.8 Max Prime Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $4 | $12 | $4 / $12 | $6 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $2 | $6 | $2 / $6 | $3 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
| Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
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| GPT-6 Luna Pro OpenAI · 1.05MCheapest: $0.1 on OpenAI (flex) | $0.1 | $0.5 | $0.1 / $0.5 | $0.2 | 1.05M | $0.1 on OpenAI (flex) | · |
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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.
Takes image, text in and returns text. First listed Sep 23, 2026. Up to 33K output tokens. Blended price $0.202 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.
Price history
List price since Sep 23, 2026, from daily reads of the OpenRouter catalog.
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Questions
How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?
$0.117 per million input tokens and $0.455 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
262K tokens, with up to 33K tokens of output.
Where is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cheapest?
Of 2 routes tracked, Qwen (Alibaba) is cheapest at $0.117 input and $0.455 output per million tokens.
Sources: OpenRouter's public model catalog and each provider's own pricing page, read every morning at 05:00 UTC; gateway fees re-read every Monday. List prices: your contract may differ. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.