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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API Pricing
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.117 per 1M input tokens and $0.455 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.117
Output / 1M tokens
$0.455
Context window
262K
Max output
33K
What would Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $2.76 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $9.23 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $20.86 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $5.59 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon...
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