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Is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct out? Yes, since October 14, 2025

Yes. Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct has been available since October 14, 2025, when it was first listed in the OpenRouter catalogue.

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Lab
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Release date
Source
OpenRouter catalogue

What changed

  • context 262k tokens · Context window of Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct. Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is the previous model of the same tier, but the gap is beyond what a percentage explains.
  • price +67 % · Prompt price compared with Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct, same tier in this family. Went from $0.150 / MTok to $0.250 / MTok. Lower is better.

About Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon...

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Questions

When was Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct released?
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct has been available since October 14, 2025, when it was first listed in the OpenRouter catalogue.
Who makes Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is made by Alibaba.
What comes after Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking, released on October 14, 2025.