Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a text model by Alibaba. 5 providers serve it, from $0.278 to $0.75 /1M; the lowest price is at SiliconFlow.
How Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.278 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 78% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- 5 providers serve it; 65% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 SiliconFlow | $0.069/1M | $0.278/1M | — | — |
 Prime Inference | $0.117/1M | $0.455/1M | — | — |
| SiliconFlow | $0.18/1M | $0.68/1M | — | — |
 OrcaRouter | $0.18/1M | $0.70/1M | — | 131K |
| OpenRouter | $0.25/1M | From$0.75/1M | $0.12/1M | 262K |
- SiliconFlow$0.278
- Prime Inference$0.455
- SiliconFlow$0.68
- OrcaRouter$0.70
- OpenRouterFrom$0.75
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 262K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 236K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Oct 11, 2025
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 8.8B
- Monthly searches
- 6K
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The lowest price for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is $0.278 /1M, at SiliconFlow.
SiliconFlow, at $0.278 /1M. 5 providers serve Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct reads up to 262K tokens per request and writes up to 236K.
Yes. Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 8.8B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
5 API providers serve Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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