Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is a text model by Alibaba. 2 providers serve it, from $0.694 to $2.10 /1M; the lowest price is at SiliconFlow.
How Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.694 /1M against a median of $1.10; 43% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 131K-token context window is larger than 21% of them (median 262K), about 200 pages of text.
- 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking 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 | $0.694/1M | — | — |
 OrcaRouter | $0.18/1M | $2.10/1M | — | 131K |
- SiliconFlow$0.694
- OrcaRouter$2.10
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 41K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Reasoning, 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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|---|---|---|---|---|
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The lowest price for Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is $0.694 /1M, at SiliconFlow.
SiliconFlow, at $0.694 /1M. 2 providers serve Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 41K.
Yes. Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking'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.
2 API providers serve Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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