Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API Pricing

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct pricing by provider

3 listings across 3 providers. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct features

• Function calling
• Parallel tool calls
• Structured output
• Image input

Use Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct with LiteLLM

Call Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
    litellm_params:
      model: novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FAQ

More Alibaba models

• Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking$0.16 / $2.87 per 1M tokens
• Qwen3 VL Plus
• Qwen3 VL 8B$0.15 / $0.55 per 1M tokens
• Qwen3 VL 235B A22B$0.53 / $2.66 per 1M tokens
• Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.40 / $1.60 per 1M tokens
• Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking$0.40 / $4 per 1M tokens
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking$0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens