Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
- In Input modalities: TextImageVideo Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning
- Tool use
- Structured output
- Open weights
Prices
3 offerings · prices as listedqwen3-vl-8b-instruct| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | ¥0.50 | ¥2.00 |
Prices from How to check model training and deployment pricing-Alibaba Cloud Model Studio(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 1, 2026)
qwen3-vl-8b-instruct| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | $0.18 | $0.70 |
Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 11, 2026)
qwen3-vl-8b-instruct| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | $0.072 | $0.287 |
Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 11, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Family
- qwen-vl
- Model ID
Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: max input, reasoning efforts, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, knowledge cutoff, aliases.
Run locally
Weights: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct- Parameters 8.8B
- Dense
- Native precision BF16
- Layers 36
- KV cache per token 144 KB
- Config positions 256K (config.json max_position_embeddings)
- API context 128K (maker’s API)
- Needs
- ≈ 18.3 GB (weights 16.3 (maker’s file) + KV cache 1.1 + overhead 0.8)
- Usable
- 21.6 GB (90% of its memory)
- Generation speed
- 27–40 tok/s
- Longest context
- 31K (longer doesn’t fit)
- First token
- about 0.28–0.42 s for a 2K prompt
| Precision | Weights | Needs at 8K | On your hardware | Longest context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 (native)maker’s file | 16.3 GB | ≈ 18.3 | ●Runs well 27–40 tok/s | 31K |
| Q8_0maker’s file | 8.1 GB | ≈ 9.7 | ●Runs well 51–76 tok/s | 92K |
| FP8maker’s file | 9.9 GB | ≈ 11.5 | ●Runs well 43–64 tok/s | 80K |
| Q6_K | 6.7 GB | ≈ 8.3 | ●Runs well 60–90 tok/s | 102K |
| Q5_K_M | 5.8 GB | ≈ 7.4 | ●Runs well 68–102 tok/s | 109K |
| Q5_0 | 5.6 GB | ≈ 7.2 | ●Runs well 70–104 tok/s | 110K |
| Q4_K_Mmaker’s file | 4.7 GB | ≈ 6.3 | ●Runs well 81–121 tok/s | 117K |
| Q4_0 | 4.6 GB | ≈ 6.2 | ●Runs well 82–123 tok/s | 117K |
| IQ4_XS | 4.3 GB | ≈ 6.0 | ●Runs well 86–129 tok/s | 119K |
| Q3_K_Mquality drops | 4.0 GB | ≈ 5.6 | ●Runs well 92–138 tok/s | 122K |
| IQ3_XXSquality drops | 3.1 GB | ≈ 4.7 | ●Runs well 110–166 tok/s | 128K |
| Q2_Kquality drops | 3.1 GB | ≈ 4.7 | ●Runs well 112–168 tok/s | 128K |
| IQ2_XXSquality drops | 2.1 GB | ≈ 3.7 | ●Runs well 145–218 tok/s | 128K |
Click a row to choose a precision. “Maker’s file” sizes are the maker’s own files; others are parameters × bits per weight.
Compared with other hardware
Each at the highest precision it runs. Click one for details.
Smallest that runs it (Q4_K_M, 8K): GPU GeForce RTX 3080; unified memory Apple M5 · 16 GB.
Run commands
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct --max-model-len 8192
Memory to fine-tune
Batch 1, 2,048-token sequences, gradient checkpointing; LoRA and QLoRA train rank-16 adapters on the attention projections.
Estimates; facts from the maker’s Hugging Face repositories, as of 2026-11-06. How it’s estimated
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by usThis model isn’t on any leaderboard we cite yet.
Changes
All changes →No changes recorded yet.
Sources
- 模型列表 - 大模型服务平台百炼 - 阿里云in Chinese (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Sep 29, 2026
- 模型上下架与更新-大模型服务平台百炼-阿里云_大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Oct 30, 2026
- qwen3-vl-8b-instruct (opens in a new tab) docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 7, 2026
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 11, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct model card (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct config.json (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8 files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- How to check model training and deployment pricing-Alibaba Cloud Model Studio(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct model card (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
Alibaba Qwen’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →
Alibaba Qwen · China · qwen.ai
Related models
Snapshots, the same family and other models from this provider