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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: price, performance and context
Open Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct by Qwen costs $0.25 per 1M input and $0.75 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 262.1K tokens in one request (≈ 790 pages of text) and scores 7.3 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 185 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 98.4%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.25
- Output / 1M tokens
- $0.75
- Context window
- 262.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 235.9K tokens
- Performance index
- 7.3 points · rank 185 of 212
- Coding index
- n/a
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $0.438 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Oct 14, 2025
- Capabilities
- Vision, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.00 | 22,000 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.00 | 28,000 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.001 | 8,300 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.002 | 4,700 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.027 | 380 |
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