Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking✓ Catalog verified
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences. It integrates enhanced multimodal alignment and...
Overview
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences. It integrates enhanced multimodal alignment and...
Access: available through the official Qwen API. Context window: 131K.
Specifications
| API identifier | qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking |
| Provider | Qwen |
| Model type | Multimodal LLM |
| Context window | 131K catalog |
| Input modalities | image · text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Released | Oct 14, 2025 |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Moderated | No |
| Architecture modality | text+image->text |
API defaults
{
"top_p": 0.95,
"temperature": 1
}Pricing
Live pricing components for qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking as published in the catalog.
| Pricing component | Raw unit price | Normalized | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tokens | $1.8e-7 | $0.18 / 1M | Per input token |
| Completion tokens | $0.0000021 | $2.10 / 1M | Per output token |
| Request fee | N/A | N/A | Per request |
| Image fee | N/A | N/A | Per image unit |
| Web search fee | N/A | N/A | Per search request |
Cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend from your own token volumes.
Estimated Total Cost
$0.51Calculated from current list pricing in the ModelsAtlas catalog.Capabilities
| Capability | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Understanding | ✓ Supported | Image and document analysis support |
| Audio Processing | Not advertised | Speech and voice aligned flows |
| Tool Calling | ✓ Supported | Supports tools / function calling |
| Self-Hosting | ✓ Supported | Deploy outside managed APIs |
Capability signals
Directional signals derived from model metadata and capability tags — not official benchmark submissions.
Quick start
Call Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking through an OpenAI-compatible client.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
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Sources & attribution
Pricing and metadata are maintained in the ModelsAtlas catalog.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking cost?
$0.18 per 1M input tokens and $2.10 per 1M output tokens on the official Qwen API.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking supports up to 131K tokens of context.
Does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking support tool / function calling?
Yes, Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
Use the official Qwen API with the model id `qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.