Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Name: Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Price: 0.18 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Alibaba

alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct is the 8-billion-parameter dense, non-thinking edition of Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3-VL vision-language family. Alibaba notes it needs less GPU memory while keeping the series' upgraded image and video understanding, long-document and long-video handling, spatial awareness, object recognition, multilingual OCR and GUI agent abilities. Pick it for lighter multimodal deployments; the 30B A3B and 235B A22B models trade size for more capability.

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Input price: $0.18USD / 1M tokens
Output price: $0.70USD / 1M tokens
Context window: 131.1K
Max output: 32.8K

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131.1K context32.8K max outputVision

Input$0.18/MOutput$0.70/M

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Specifications

Pricing

Input: $0.18 / 1M tokens
Output: $0.70 / 1M tokens

Context & modalities

Context window: 131,072 tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Input: Text, image
Output: Text

Capabilities

Chat: Supported
Vision: Supported
Reasoning: Not supported
Structured output: Supported
Function calling: Supported
Audio input: Not supported

Access

Provider: Alibaba
Model ID: alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
Execution: sync
Base URL: https://api.sandbase.ai
API: Chat Completions API
Endpoint: /v1/chat/completions

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Chat Completions API endpoint

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions

Model ID

alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "model": "alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

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Questions

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How do I call Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct through SandBase?

Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct" to Chat Completions API (/v1/chat/completions) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.

How much does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?

$0.18 per 1M input tokens and $0.70 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.

What is the context window of Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

131.1K tokens of context, with up to 32.8K output tokens per response.

Which features does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct support?

Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct supports vision (image input), function calling, structured output. See Specifications above for the full list.

Do I need a separate Alibaba account?

No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.