Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

QwenID: qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking

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 long-context processing (native 256K, expandable to 1M tokens) for tasks such as scientific visual analysis, causal inference, and mathematical reasoning over image or video inputs. Compared to the Instruct edition, the Thinking version introduces deeper visual-language fusion and deliberate reasoning pathways that improve performance on long-chain logic tasks, STEM problem-solving, and multi-step video understanding. It achieves stronger temporal grounding via Interleaved-MRoPE and timestamp-aware embeddings, while maintaining robust OCR, multilingual comprehension, and text generation on par with large text-only LLMs.

Pricing per 1M Tokens

Input (Prompt)$0.12
Output (Completion)$1.36
Cache ReadFree
Cache WriteFree
ImageN/A

Specifications

Context Length131K
Max Output Tokens33K
Input ModalitiesImage + Text
Output ModalitiesText
TokenizerQwen3
Instruct TypeN/A
Top Provider Context131K
Top Provider Max Output33K
ModeratedNo

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Last updated: March 23, 2026

First tracked: March 23, 2026