Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a language model from Qwen released on Oct 14, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 262K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.68 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling and structured JSON output.
3 providers serve it, including SiliconFlow, SiliconFlow (China) and Kilo Gateway.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.18 / $0.68 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 262K
- Released
- Oct 14, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.18 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.68 / 1M tokens |
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct providers
3 providers serve it, including SiliconFlow, SiliconFlow (China) and Kilo Gateway. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiliconFlow | $0.18 | $0.68 | – | 262K | 262K |
| SiliconFlow (China) | $0.18 | $0.68 | – | 262K | 262K |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.12 | 262K | 236K |
What Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct costs per month
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Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct questions
How much does the Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct API cost?
$0.18 per million input tokens and $0.68 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?
262,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 262,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?
3 providers serve it, including SiliconFlow, SiliconFlow (China) and Kilo Gateway. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct open source?
No. Qwen serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct released?
Oct 14, 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?
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