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Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 21, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking was released on October 14, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.117 per million input tokens and $1.36 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$0.117
Output$1.36
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
$0.117
$1.365
131,072
Try
$0.100
$0.100
131,072
Try
$0.100
$0.400
29.0
69.2
48.1
131,072
Try
$0.100
$0.100
128,000
Try
$0.100
$0.400
40.0
72.4
47.4
1,048,576
Try
$0.100
$0.300
25.4
62.2
41.4
131,072
Try
$0.100
$0.400
32.6
65.7
51.2
1,047,576
Try
$0.100
$0.400
33.4
77.9
62.3
1,048,576
Try
$0.100
$0.320
28.8
71.3
49.8
131,072
Try
$0.104
$0.416
51.4
79.1
67.1
131,072
Try
$0.110
$0.190
15.7
2,824
Try

* 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.

1
Providers
$0.117
Cheapest Input/M
$1.365
Cheapest Output/M
Alibaba
Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Cache Read $/M
Cache Write $/M
Uptime
A
Alibaba
Best Price
$0.117
$1.365
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Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking costs $0.000117 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.001365 per 1,000 output tokens.
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking is available from 1 provider(s). Alibaba offers the best price.
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