The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Alibaba ·Open weights ·Released October 2025·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
unranked
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Known Good Index
Speed
#153 of 317
49.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#77 of 370
$0.20
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.12 · Out $0.46
Cache hit price
unranked
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per 1M tokens
Context
#183 of 375
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct does not yet carry a Known Good Index score — the index needs at least one science, one mathematics and one coding result. It accepts image, text input, outputs text, and supports a 262k-token context window.

Pricing is $0.12 per 1M input tokens (below the $2.10 average) and $0.46 per 1M output (below the $9.62 average). At 49 tokens per second it sits in the upper middle of the tracked range.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

Technical specifications
ReasoningNo
Input modalityimage, text
Output modalitytext
Context window262,144 tokens
Max output32,768 tokens
WeightsOpen weights
Knowledge cutoff—
Tool callingYes
Providers2 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct sits
Quality

Known Good Index · Higher is better · Composite of seven published evaluations

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Gemini 3.1 Pro
Preview
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Claude Opus 4.7
Qwen3.7 Max
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Kimi K2.6
GLM 5.2
Qwen3.6 Max
Preview
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Claude Opus 4.6
GLM 5.1
o3 Mini
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
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Qwen3.6 Plus
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Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · OpenRouter endpoint telemetry

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Morph V3 Large
Morph V3 Fast
Relace Apply 3
Grok 4.20
Multi-Agent
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Nano Banana 2 Lite
(Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Mercury 2
Nano Banana
(Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Grok 4.20
Nano Banana 2
(Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)
Llama 3.2 3B
Instruct
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B
Thinking
gpt-oss-120b
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Laguna XS 2.1
Muse Spark 1.1
Trinity Large
Thinking
o3 Mini High
Qwen3 30B A3B
Thinking 2507
gpt-oss-20b
Nano Banana 2
(Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Gemini 3.1 Flash
Lite Preview
GPT-5.6 Luna Pro
Qwen3 VL 8B
Thinking
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Llama 3.2 1B
Instruct
Gemini 3.1 Flash
Lite
Grok Build 0.1
Claude Opus 4.8
(Fast)
Nemotron 3 Nano
30B A3B
Qwen3 VL 8B
Instructthis model #153/317
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

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Qwen2.5 7B
Instruct
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Qwen3.7 Flash
Mistral Small 3
Llama 3.1 8B
Instruct
MythoMax 13B
Nova Micro 1.0
Granite 4.1 8B
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Command R7B
(12-2024)
GPT-5 Nano (batch)
gpt-oss-120b
Llama 3.2 1B
Instruct
Gemma 3 12B
Laguna XS 2.1
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Qwen3 30B A3B
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30B A3B
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Hy3 preview
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Nova Lite 1.0
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Qwen3 VL 8B
Instructthis model #77/370 · off scale
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Quality

How Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCapability indices
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, Mock AIME 2024–25, MATH Level 5, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from their publishers; we do not run these evaluations.

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💡 A lightbulb marks a model its provider publishes as a reasoning model
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Quality Breakdown

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct · grey marker = average across tracked models

None of the seven index evaluations have published a score for this model yet.

The Known Good

Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena Elo

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct does not currently appear in any arena we ingest.

The Known Good

Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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262k
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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct, with their own price and speed

2 providers
Full provider benchmarks →
ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Alibaba · first party $0.12 $0.46 $0.20 57 0.5s 131k
Parasail $0.25 $0.75 $0.38 26 0.8s 262k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

The Known Good

History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index —
Blended price $0.20 per 1M · observed 29 Jul 2026
Output speed 49 tok/s · observed 29 Jul 2026
Time to first token 0.6s
28 Jul 2026 · price change
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct price up 54%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.13 to $0.20 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
28 Jul 2026 · price change
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct price down 35%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.20 to $0.13 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
The Known Good

Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Full attribution →