Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team model product
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking is a multimodal language model for understanding text, images, and video with a focus on reasoning and STEM tasks.
Updated Sep 8, 2026. Default version: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
LLMBoard Score27.3Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Coverage80%50 benchmark families
Context window262.1KTokens
Official input priceN/AOfficial price unavailable
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Capability Profile
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Benchmark Results
Benchmark scores for Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking.
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Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkMuirBench | Score76.80% | Rank04 | Participants12 | Percentile72.73% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkBLINK | Score68.70% | Rank05 | Participants15 | Percentile71.43% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMMU (val) | Score74.10% | Rank05 | Participants13 | Percentile66.67% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOCRBench-V2 (en) | Score63.90% | Rank06 | Participants14 | Percentile61.54% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkWritingBench | Score85.50% | Rank06 | Participants15 | Percentile64.29% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkCharadesSTA | Score59.90% | Rank07 | Participants12 | Percentile45.45% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkInfoVQAtest | Score86.00% | Rank07 | Participants12 | Percentile45.45% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMLVU-M | Score75.10% | Rank07 | Participants8 | Percentile14.29% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMM-MT-Bench | Score8.00 points | Rank07 | Participants17 | Percentile62.50% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOCRBench-V2 (zh) | Score59.20% | Rank07 | Participants11 | Percentile40.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkDocVQAtest | Score95.30% | Rank08 | Participants11 | Percentile30.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkHallusion Bench | Score65.40% | Rank08 | Participants18 | Percentile58.82% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkScreenSpot | Score93.60% | Rank09 | Participants16 | Percentile46.67% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkCharXiv-D | Score85.90% | Rank10 | Participants17 | Percentile43.75% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLiveBench 20241125 | Score69.80% | Rank10 | Participants14 | Percentile30.77% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMBench-V1.1 | Score87.50% | Rank10 | Participants20 | Percentile52.63% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMStar | Score75.30% | Rank11 | Participants25 | Percentile58.33% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMulti-IF | Score75.10% | Rank11 | Participants23 | Percentile54.55% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkCreative Writing v3 | Score82.40% | Rank12 | Participants13 | Percentile8.33% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMathVista-Mini | Score81.40% | Rank13 | Participants25 | Percentile50.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOSWorld | Score33.90% | Rank13 | Participants20 | Percentile36.84% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkVideo-MME | Score71.80% | Rank14 | Participants17 | Percentile18.75% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkODinW | Score39.80% | Rank15 | Participants16 | Percentile6.67% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkPolyMATH | Score47.50% | Rank15 | Participants23 | Percentile36.36% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSimpleQA | Score49.60% | Rank15 | Participants47 | Percentile69.57% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkArena-Hard v2 | Score51.10% | Rank16 | Participants19 | Percentile16.67% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkCC-OCR | Score76.30% | Rank16 | Participants18 | Percentile11.76% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMVBench | Score69.00% | Rank16 | Participants18 | Percentile11.76% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkBFCL-v3 | Score63.00% | Rank19 | Participants19 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOCRBench | Score81.90% | Rank20 | Participants24 | Percentile17.39% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Arena Results
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
No Arena results
The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Pricing
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
- Official API
- N/A
- Official provider
- N/A
- Lowest third-party
- From $0.18 input, $2.1 output per 1M via OpenRouter
- Tracked offerings
- 1
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Provider | Provider model ID | Region | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Updated |
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| ProviderOpenRouter | Provider model IDqwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.18 | Output / 1M$2.1 | Context131.1K | Updated |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Runtime Performance
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No runtime data
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Specifications
Technical details for the model's default version.
- Version
- Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
- Released
- Sep 22, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Unknown
- Parameters
- 9B
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 262.1K
- Inputs
- image, text
- Outputs
- text
- Open weights
- Yes
- License
- Apache 2.0
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Versions
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
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Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionQwen3 VL 8B Thinking | Released | LLMBoard27.25 | Parameters9B | Context262.1K | Max output262.1K | Open weightsYes | LicenseApache 2.0 |
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What is Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
Key information about Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking and its available data.
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking is a model from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team that combines vision, language, and reasoning. It supports visual understanding, spatial reasoning, long-video comprehension, multilingual OCR, and tool-based interaction.
Data as of 2026-09-08.
FAQ
Common questions about Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking.
When was Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking released?
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking's default version was released on Sep 22, 2025.
How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking cost?
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.18 input and $2.1 output via OpenRouter.
Who created Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking was created by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.
What is the context window for Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
The default version has a 262.1K token context window.
Is Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking open weight?
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under Apache 2.0.