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Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen · released Oct 14, 2025

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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...

Specification

Context window
131K
Max output
33K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
8.8B
Licence
apache-2.0
Serving providers
1
Moderated
No

Intelligence

Not benchmarked

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

125 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

732ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.18

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

This model has not been put through the benchmark suite. Its speed, latency and pricing figures below are still measured.

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Claude Opus 563.1
Claude Fable 562.1
GPT-5.6 Sol60.9
Kimi K359.7
Qwen3.8 Max58.1
Claude Opus 4.857.3
Muse Spark 1.256.8

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.18
Output / 1M tokens
$2.1
Cached input / 1M
Not offered
Blended 3:1
$0.66

One task, estimated

$0.18

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.