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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences. $0.18 per million input tokens, $2.10 per million output tokens. 131,072 token context window, maximum output of 32,768 tokens. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

Overview

Model specifications

Context
131,072 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
$0.18
/M tokens
Output
$2.1
/M tokens
API

Model configuration

Default parameters

temperature
1
top_p
0.95

Reasoning

Moderated
Yes
Default parameters
No
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

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

InputOutput

Input
imagetext
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Live providers on OpenRouter

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OpenRouter

Alibaba

unknown
Context
131K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.180
Output
$2.10
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided
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