Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
AlibabaReleased Jan 1, 2026Open weights · Apache 2.0qwen3-vl-8b-thinking
- Reasoning
- yes
- Knowledge cutoff
- September 2025
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 32k tokens
- Input
- text, image, video
- API features
- tools, structured outputs, JSON mode, seed, logprobs
- Alibaba's API
- yes
Read Oct 9, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from Alibaba · cutoff: aiknowledgecutoff.com
Its only host, Alibaba, serves a weights precision we can't read (host terms) and serves a 128K context (maker: 256K). Weights and context per host
Open weights under Apache 2.0: you can run Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking on your own hardware instead of paying per token.
Memory ≈ parameters × bytes per parameter × 1.2 · cloud price: on-demand rate, running 24/7 · builds: GGUF, AWQ, MLX, GPTQ, Ollama · break-even calculator
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache ↑ | Uptime 24h | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibabaprecision not read: host terms · 128K ctx (256K) · 32K out | $0.18 | $2.10 | — | 100% | Oct 9 |
1 provider · prices per million tokens, read Oct 9, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h · under each host: weights precision, context and max output as served, the maker's value in brackets when the host's differs
| Provider | Weights | Context | Max output | Tools | Structured outputs | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | not read: host terms | 128K | 32K | yes | yes | yes |
Weights, context and max output: read at each host's own catalogue or docs where its terms allow, otherwise as the host declares to OpenRouter; hover a cell for its source and date · tools, structured outputs, reasoning: as declared to OpenRouter · not verified by us
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking spec sheet, field by field, with sources
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking spec sheetmaker-declared
What Alibaba declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Parameters
- 8,767,123,696≈ 8.8B
- Active experts
- none declared in the weights
- Weight precision
- BF16
- License
- Apache 2.0 — open weights, permissivecurated · read 2026-09-07Scope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
- Knowledge cutoff
- not published by the maker≈ September 2025 third-party estimate — not the maker's figurecurated
- Modalities
- text · image · video
- Max output (official)
- to verify
- Release date
- to verify≈ 2026 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
- Maker lifecycle status
- to verify
Also declared in the weights
- Architecture class
- Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
- Layers
- 36
- Vocabulary
- 151,936 tokens
- Weights first published
- October 11, 2025
- Weights last updated
- November 26, 2025
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking · config.json @ 92f3c4b · read 2026-10-08 · 5 of 10 fields published by the maker
| Provider | Chatbot 1,000 in / 500 out | RAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 out | Batch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | $1.23 | $2.49 | $2.82 |
What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job
Your own workload
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