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Using Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Qwen3-VL · Alibaba

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OpenRouter exposes Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct through model ID qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.12/1M input, $0.46/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (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

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Novita AI$0.08/1M
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Provider

OpenRouter
OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA