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Qwen3-VL-8B
Qwen3-VL-8B is an AI model made by Alibaba Tongyi. Alibaba Tongyi released it on 15 October 2025. It is generally available. Its weights are open.
Qwen3-VL-8B is an AI model made by Alibaba Tongyi. Alibaba Tongyi released it on 15 October 2025. It is generally available. Its weights are open. Its licence is Apache-2.0.
- Released
- 15 October 2025 — github.com, read 16 October 2026
- Status
- Generally available — help.aliyun.com, read 16 October 2026
- Takes
- Text, Image, Video — github.com, read 16 October 2026
- Returns
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: text, code and text
- Open weights
- Yes — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0 — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
- Context window
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 256000 and 131072
- Longest answer
- Not confirmed: The maker's model card examples set generation limits for those examples, but do not state the model's standard maximum output.
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not confirmed: The maker's model cards and repository do not print a knowledge-cutoff date for this model.
- API price, input
- Not confirmed: “Qwen3-VL-8B” refers to Instruct and Thinking editions with different output prices; the maker's pricing page does not define one shared standard price for the unsuffixed model.
- API price, output
- Not confirmed: “Qwen3-VL-8B” refers to Instruct and Thinking editions with different output prices; the maker's pricing page does not define one shared standard price for the unsuffixed model.
- Where
- API, Downloadable weights — help.aliyun.com, read 16 October 2026
- Parameters
- Not confirmed: The maker identifies Instruct and Thinking editions as Qwen3-VL-8B, but the checked maker pages do not state a parameter count as a number.
- Model card
- Not confirmed: The maker provides separate model cards for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct and Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking, but no single card for the unsuffixed model name.
Questions
When was Qwen3-VL-8B released?
Alibaba Tongyi released Qwen3-VL-8B on 15 October 2025.
Is Qwen3-VL-8B still available?
Yes: it is generally available, as Alibaba Tongyi states it.
Are the weights of Qwen3-VL-8B open?
Yes: Alibaba Tongyi publishes the weights of Qwen3-VL-8B for download.
What is the licence of Qwen3-VL-8B?
The licence of Qwen3-VL-8B is Apache-2.0, as Alibaba Tongyi names it.
More from Alibaba Tongyi
- Qwen-1.8B
- Qwen-14B
- Qwen-72B
- Qwen-7B
- Qwen-Audio
- Qwen-Image
- Qwen-VL
- Qwen-VL-Max
- Qwen-VL-Plus
- Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B
- Qwen2-Audio
- Qwen2-VL-72B
- Qwen2.5-Omni-3B
- Qwen2.5-Omni-7B
- Qwen2.5-VL-3B
- Qwen2.5-VL-7B
- Qwen3-0.6B
- Qwen3-1.7B
- Qwen3-14B
- Qwen3-235B-A22B
- Qwen3-30B-A3B
- Qwen3-32B
- Qwen3-4B
- Qwen3-8B
Sources
- GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen3-VL (read 16 October 2026)
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct (read 16 October 2026)
- Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking (read 16 October 2026)
- 阿里云百炼模型价格 (read 16 October 2026)
- 视觉理解 (read 16 October 2026)