How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost per million tokens?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.117 per million input tokens and $0.455 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context and returns up to 32,768 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

About $0.34, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.03 / $0.5) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Qwen API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Qwen sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API 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. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)Tool callingimage inputRetiring 2026-10-09

Input: $0.117; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.455; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 262K; 33K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Qwen's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released October 14, 2025. Model id qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.

What Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.34

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$1.16

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.44

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct price by host

2 hosts serve this model. Prices are the same or higher than list; the cheapest are first.

Alibaba$0.117 in · $0.455 out · 131K ctx · 99.5% uptime 24h
Parasail$0.25 in · $0.75 out · 262K ctx · 98.3% uptime 24h

Where to buy Qwen credits for less

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.117 in / $0.455 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$10.40/ month(quotes below are for $10.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	$0.042	$0.084	$0.052	1.0M
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B	$0.09	$0.3	$0.143	262K
Google: Gemma 4 31B	$0.09	$0.34	$0.152	262K

Other Qwen models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	$0.15	$0.6	$0.262	262K
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct	$0.21	$1.90	$0.632	262K
Qwen3 Coder Flash	$0.195	$0.975	$0.39	1M
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking	$0.15	$1.20	$0.412	262K
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	$0.1	$1.10	$0.35	262K
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct	$0.07	$0.28	$0.123	262K

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