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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Source description (English)

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Architecture
text+image->text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.117
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.455
per 1M tokens
API

Model configuration

Default parameters

temperature
0.7
top_p
0.8
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
imagetext
Output
text
API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltylogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

2 providers

Checked: September 7, 2026

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Alibaba

Not provided
Context
131K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.117
Output
$0.455
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Parasail

bf16
Context
262K
Maximum output
236K
Input
$0.25
Output
$0.75
Cache read
$0.12
Cache write
Not provided
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