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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

AlibabaReleased Oct 14, 2025Deprecated

Score basis

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is behind the leaders in multimodal tasks and agentic tasks. Too few results yet to rate reasoning, coding, safety, long context, math, multilingual tasks, instruction following, or factuality.

Capability profile

Bars show the model's median result as a share of the leading model's, per capability. Select a row to see its results.

Limited2 capabilities
  1. Multimodal−42.7%5 of 6
  2. Agentic−45.8%2 of 7
Not rated8 capabilities

Too few results yet to rate Reasoning, Coding, Safety, Long Context, Math, Multilingual, Instruction Following or Factuality.

Price

$0.18input$0.70outputper million tokens

From Alibaba's own price page · 3 providers tracked · All prices

Cheaper than 71% of 330 priced models · 3:1 input-to-output blend, log scale

Evidence

56results on54benchmarks

  • 16 aggregator
  • 36 vendor-reported
  • 4 cross-referenced

From 3 sources · latest Oct 8, 2026 · How verification works

API features

Tool callingStructured outputs

As listed by OpenRouter

Research

26 papers reference Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct benchmark results

56 results on 54 benchmarks, grouped by capability. Each bar is the result as a share of the capability leader's; every result links to its source.

Multimodal

LimitedFull multimodal ranking

42.7% behind the leader5 of 6 ranked benchmarks measured

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Agentic

LimitedFull agentic ranking

45.8% behind the leader2 of 7 ranked benchmarks measured

Reasoning

Not enough dataFull reasoning ranking

0 of 6 ranked benchmarks measured

Coding

Not enough dataFull coding ranking

0 of 10 ranked benchmarks measured

Long Context

Not enough dataFull long context ranking

0 of 3 ranked benchmarks measured

Instruction Following

Not enough dataFull instruction following ranking

0 of 3 ranked benchmarks measured

Factuality

Not enough dataFull factuality ranking

0 of 4 ranked benchmarks measured

More results

Benchmarks outside the capability baskets. They are not ranked against a leader.

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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: common questions

Who makes Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is made by Alibaba.

When was Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct released?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct was released on Oct 14, 2025, according to Artificial Analysis.

What is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct good at?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is behind the leaders in multimodal tasks and agentic tasks. Too few results yet to rate reasoning, coding, safety, long context, math, multilingual tasks, instruction following, or factuality.

How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens, according to Alibaba's own price page. We track its price at 3 providers. At a mix of three input tokens to one output token, it is cheaper than 71% of the 330 priced models we track.

How many benchmarks has Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct been tested on?

We track 56 results for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on 54 benchmarks from 3 sources. The latest was recorded on Oct 8, 2026.

Which API features does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct support?

OpenRouter lists tool calling and structured outputs for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct.

About this record

Where Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct's numbers come from, and every name it appears under.

Tracked since
Apr 27, 2026
Newest source mention
Sep 29, 2026

Where the results come from

Verification: 56 scores · 0 independently verified · 16 aggregator-attributed · 4 vendor cross-reference · 36 vendor-reported. How these tiers are assigned

From 3 sources on 3 sites. api.llm-stats.com supplies 36 of them. Bars are coloured by trust tier.

  • api.llm-stats.com36
  • artificialanalysis.ai16
  • huggingface.co4

Also known as

qwen3-vl-8bqwen3-vl-8b-instruct (Reasoning)qwen3-vl-8b-instruct (Non-Reasoning)