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Why use Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.12/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$0.117
Output / 1M
$0.455
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Setup recipe
Docs fallbackInstall
Use the provider REST API or SDKAuth
Create a provider API keyCall
model: qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instructModel ID
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instructRequest example
Curated snippets for this provider are not sourced yet. Use OpenRouter documentation with model ID
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct", not the LLMReference slug "qwen3-vl-8b-instruct".
Compare Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $0.08 | $0.50 |
| OpenRouter | $0.12 | $0.46 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.12 |
| Output tokens | $0.46 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs
About Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a compact 8B multimodal vision-language model from Alibaba, delivering high-fidelity image understanding and grounding at 128K context.
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Model Specs
Released2025-09-18
Parameters8B
Context128k
ArchitectureDecoder Only