Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

by Alibaba

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is an open-weight, compact dense vision-language model offering multimodal understanding for image-to-text tasks, GUI automation, and visual reasoning. With about 9 billion parameters and a 131K context window, it balances capability with a low memory footprint for edge and resource-constrained deployments. The model works across visual domains, including spatial perception, OCR in 32 languages, visual coding assistance, and document analysis. It supports visual agent functions for interface navigation while staying efficient at inference. It is well suited to local deployment, edge AI systems, and applications that prioritize latency over maximum visual reasoning capability. The dense architecture and open-weight release enable fine-tuning for specialized visual domains and on-device vision systems.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
131K
Max output
33K
Input price
$0.08 /1M
Output price
$0.50 /1M
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention via Enterprise
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USEnterpriseNo$0.08$0.50

Training posture across routes: No training on prompts by default.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Novita β€” United StatesπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Available via Opper Enterprise contract.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Third-party access
None disclosed
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores β€” composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Global rank#371 of 534 LLMs
TierEfficient
Output speed145 tok/s
First token0.93s
Intelligence Index8.4
Math Index27.3
Reasoning & knowledge
MMLU-Pro
69%
GPQA Diamond
43%
Humanity's Last Exam
3%
Long-context reasoning
15%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
33%
SciCode
17%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
2%
τ²-Bench Telecom
29%
Math & instruction following
AIME 2025
27%
IFBench
32%

Get started

Call Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into your coding agent β€” Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more β€” and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.click/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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