minimax
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash
66.9 overall · $0.262 / 1M
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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
tool callingimage inputprompt caching
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens with a 262K-token context window.
A tool-calling model from qwen, released Oct 14, 2025. LiveBench hasn't published a run for it, so this page carries measured price and specs only — no benchmark numbers.
- Input / 1M
- $0.250
- Output / 1M
- $0.750
- Context
- 262K
- LiveBench overall
- Not evaluated
Specs and pricing
| Input price USD per 1M prompt tokens | $0.250 |
|---|---|
| Output price USD per 1M completion tokens, reasoning included | $0.750 |
| Blended price 3:1 input:output — #117 cheapest of 350 listed models | $0.375 |
| Cached input read Blank means not priced separately — not free | $0.120 |
| Cache write | — |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 235,929 tokens |
| Input modalities | image, text |
| Tool calling | Yes |
| Extended reasoning | No |
| Knowledge cutoff | — |
| Listed | Oct 14, 2025 |
What Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs to run
Monthly list cost across five workload shapes, using the published cached-input rate where there is one. A floor, not a quote — batch discounts and cache writes aren't included.
| Workload | Per month |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot 1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests | $110.64/mo |
| RAG assistant 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests | $193.00/mo |
| Coding agent 40K in / 4K out × 20K requests | $187.20/mo |
| Document extraction 20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests | $299.75/mo |
| Bulk classification 500 in / 20 out × 5M requests | $635.00/mo |
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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FAQ
How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct lists at $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens, with cached input reads at $0.120 per 1M. A RAG assistant handling 100K requests a month (8K tokens in, 600 out) comes to about $193.00 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 can return up to 235,929 output tokens per response.
Does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct support tool calling?
Yes — Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct supports tool (function) calling. It accepts image, text input.
How does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct score on benchmarks?
LiveBench has not published a run for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct yet. Until it does, compare it on price and specs, or run your own evaluation on your own tasks.
What is the API model ID for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
On OpenRouter the model ID is "qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct". It was listed on Oct 14, 2025.
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How these numbers are produced
- Price and specs — provider list data from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
- Scores and ranks — LiveBench release 2026-10-25. Ranks count only models that have a published run; a blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
- Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.