Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 23, 2026 at 08:08 AM

Overview

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct was released on October 14, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.080 per million input tokens and $0.500 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Qwen.

Context Window

131K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.080

Output$0.500

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output98 tok/s

TTFT0.90s

median latency

Capabilities

VisionToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
QW Qwen	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct	$0.080	$0.500	33.2	68.6	42.7	131,072	Try
BD Baidu	ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking	$0.070	$0.280	—	—	—	131,072	Try
BD Baidu	ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B	$0.070	$0.280	—	—	—	120,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct	$0.070	$0.270	40.3	70.6	51.6	160,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	$0.071	$0.463	52.4	82.8	75.3	262,144	Try
O OpenAI	gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	$0.075	$0.300	—	—	—	131,072	Try
BY Bytedance-seed	Seed 1.6 Flash	$0.075	$0.300	—	—	—	262,144	Try
G Google	Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite	$0.075	$0.300	18.5	72.4	53.5	1,048,576	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507	$0.080	$0.330	51.5	77.7	65.9	262,144	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 32B	$0.080	$0.240	28.8	72.7	53.5	40,960	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 4 Scout	$0.080	$0.300	29.9	75.2	58.7	327,680	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.080

Cheapest Input/M

$0.500

Cheapest Output/M

Novita

Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
N Novita Best Price	$0.080	$0.500	53.8%
T Together	$0.180	$0.680	99.9%
A Alibaba	$0.180	$0.700	97.9%
P Parasail	$0.250	$0.750	99.9%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

14.7 (28th pct)

Coding

7.3 (11th pct)

Math

27.3 (31th pct)

MMLU Pro

68.6 (29th pct)

GPQA

42.7 (22th pct)

LiveCodeBench

33.2 (34th pct)

AIME

Aider

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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