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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking (sold by OpenRouter)

Prices and limits, each value carrying the date it was observed and the source it came from.

As of 6 October 2026, Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking costs $0.180 per million input tokens and $2.10 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. Observed on OpenRouter's own published price list on 6 October 2026. This is OpenRouter's resale price, not the model vendor's list price.

Input $0.180 per 1M
Output $2.10 per 1M
Context 131 072 tokens

What does Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking cost?

ParameterValueUnit ObservedSourceProof
Input price $0.180 USD per 1M tokens 6 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 fbbfc6bc7adb
Output price $2.10 USD per 1M tokens 6 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 fbbfc6bc7adb
Context window 131 072 tokens 6 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 fbbfc6bc7adb
Maximum output 32 768 tokens 6 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 fbbfc6bc7adb
Intelligence index (Artificial Analysis) 8.2 index 0-100 5 October 2026 recheck due official API L4 4533d723c5d5
Input modalities
  • image
  • text
list 2 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 e17e1400f738
Output modalities
  • text
list 2 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 e17e1400f738
Listed since 2025-10-14 date 2 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 e17e1400f738
Supported parameters
  • frequency_penalty
  • include_reasoning
  • logprobs
  • max_tokens
  • presence_penalty
  • reasoning
  • response_format
  • seed
  • stop
  • structured_outputs
  • temperature
  • tool_choice
  • tools
  • top_k
  • top_logprobs
  • top_p
list 2 October 2026 recheck due official API L1 e17e1400f738

How reliable is each host behind Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?

The cheapest offer is not a bargain if it is down. OpenRouter routes traffic to several upstream hosts for this model and publishes the availability its own router recorded over the last day for each of them. Least reliable first.

HostAvailability, last day Observed
alibaba 100.00 % 9 October 2026

This is availability as OpenRouter's router observed it, not as you would measure it calling the host directly: the network path is not the same. We read it once a day and keep every reading, so a host that was unreliable last August can still be shown to have been unreliable last August.

We publish no time to first token and no throughput. OpenRouter's API carries fields for both and leaves them empty on every endpoint we have read, and we will not fill a number the source does not give.

How has Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking moved?

Output price, 7 observations between 25 August 2026 and 6 October 2026. Range $2.10 to $2.10. Drawn as a step: a value holds until the next observation, we do not interpolate between them.

How capable is Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?

IndexScoreObservedSource
Intelligence index (Artificial Analysis)8.2 5 October 2026 Artificial Analysis L4

These indices are produced by Artificial Analysis and relayed through the catalogue API. They are not our own measurement. See cost per point of capability to compare them against price.

Has Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking changed price?

No change has been recorded since we started observing this service on 25 August 2026. We record a change only when two successive observations differ, so an empty table here means the values have held.

What did Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking cost before we started reading?

Between 20 October 2025 and 31 July 2026, public archived copies of the seller's catalogue show the output price going from $2.10 to $2.10 (+0%), through 2 changes.

CapturedPrice Per 1M tokensArchived copy
20 October 2025Input $0.180 view the capture
20 October 2025Output $2.10 view the capture
19 February 2026Input $0.117 view the capture
19 February 2026Output $1.365 view the capture
31 July 2026Input $0.180 view the capture
31 July 2026Output $2.10 view the capture

These figures come from 3 public archived copies of the seller's catalogue, not from our own reading: each row shows the day of the capture and links to it, so you can check it. Identical consecutive values are folded into one row, dated by the first capture that shows them.

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Where these figures come from

Source: OpenRouter. Every figure on this page was read from OpenRouter's own published price list, and every row above links straight back to it. We publish factual values with attribution, we do not reproduce OpenRouter's content, and we send readers to them. If you publish this source and want us to stop tracking it, write to contact@bertrande.com and we will act on it without argument.

How is this page verified?

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The Proof column shows the first twelve characters of the SHA-256 fingerprint of the source content at the moment we read it. Hover it for the full value. It is what lets us demonstrate later what the source said on a given day, after that page has changed or vanished. The full fingerprints are in data.json.

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