Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Qwen (Alibaba) · Open weights · 131K context · released Oct 14, 2025 · checked 7h ago
Ways to buy 1
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen (Alibaba) API The lab's own API | $0.18 | $2.1 | $0.18 / $2.1List price | n/a | List price |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
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No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
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About Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences.
Takes image, text in and returns text. First listed Sep 23, 2026. Up to 33K output tokens. Blended price $0.66 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id qwen3-vl-8b-thinking.
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 Thinking cost?
$0.18 per million input tokens and $2.1 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
131K tokens, with up to 33K tokens of output.
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