How much does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.120 per 1M.

What is Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct's context window?

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct accepts up to 262,144 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 235,929 output tokens.

Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Yes. Free Models Router is free per 1M input tokens versus $0.250 for Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct, with a 200,000 token context window.

Where does this Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct price come from?

From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct pricing

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. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct from OpenRouter costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.120 per 1M. Context window 262,144 tokens.

API id qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-11-10 · general-purpose

$0.250

Input / 1M tokens

$0.750

Output / 1M tokens

$0.120

Cached input / 1M

262K

Context window

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct specifications

Provider: OpenRouter
API id: qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
Model type: general-purpose
Context window: 262K tokens
Max output: 236K tokens
Currency: USD
Price source: Provider API
Last checked: 2026-11-10

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct across providers

The same model, priced by every seller we track. Ranked by the cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens, standard tier; savings measured against buying from the vendor directly.

Provider	Input /1M	Cached /1M	Output /1M	1M in + 1M out	vs vendor
Alibaba (Qwen)VendorCheapest	$0.250	$0.120	$0.750	$1.00	—
OpenRouterHostviewing	$0.250	$0.120	$0.750	$1.00	—

What Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
Workload	Input tokens	Output tokens	Estimated cost
Short chat turn	1,000	500	$0.0006
Document summary	50,000	2,000	$0.01
1M tokens in, 200K out	1,000,000	200,000	$0.40

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct price history

Recorded	Input /1M	Output /1M
2026-10-10	$0.250	$0.750
2026-08-27	$0.117	$0.455

Common questions

How much does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost per 1M tokens?: Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.120 per 1M.
What is Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct's context window?: Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct accepts up to 262,144 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 235,929 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?: Yes. Free Models Router is free per 1M input tokens versus $0.250 for Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct, with a 200,000 token context window.
Where does this Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct price come from?: From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

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