Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 7, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking was released on October 14, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.180 per million input tokens and $2.10 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 256K tokens. API access is available through Qwen.

Context Window

256K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.180

Output$2.10

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

VisionReasoningTools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking 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 Thinking	$0.180	$2.100	—	—	—	256,000	Try in Playground
M Meta-llama	Llama 4 Maverick	$0.150	$0.600	39.7	80.9	67.1	1,048,576	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o-mini Search Preview	$0.150	$0.600	—	—	—	128,000	Try in Playground
QW Qwen	QwQ 32B	$0.150	$0.400	63.1	76.4	59.3	32,768	Try in Playground
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct	$0.150	$0.600	—	—	—	32,768	Try in Playground
QW Qwen	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	$0.150	$0.600	47.6	76.4	69.5	262,144	Try in Playground
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking	$0.150	$1.200	—	—	—	128,000	Try in Playground
O OpenAI	GPT-4o-mini	$0.150	$0.600	23.4	64.8	42.6	128,000	Try in Playground
TD Thedrummer	Rocinante 12B	$0.170	$0.430	—	27.5	5.5	32,768	Try in Playground
AR Arcee AI	Spotlight	$0.180	$0.180	—	—	—	131,072	Try in Playground
M Meta-llama	Llama Guard 4 12B	$0.180	$0.180	—	—	—	163,840	Try in Playground

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

Compare Providers

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

Providers

$0.180

Cheapest Input/M

$2.100

Cheapest Output/M

Alibaba

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
A Alibaba Best Price	$0.180	$2.100	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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