Question 1

What is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a model from Qwen, released on Oct 15, 2025. 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 temporal reasoning, DeepStack for fine-grained visual-text alignment, and text-timestamp alignment for precise event localization. The model supports a native 256K-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens, and handles both static and dynamic media inputs for tasks like document parsing, visual question answering, spatial reasoning, and GUI control. It achieves text understanding comparable to leading LLMs while expanding OCR coverage to 32 languages and enhancing robustness under varied visual conditions.

Question 2

How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.12 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, and output starts at $0.45 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 4 providers, it costs $0.20 per 1M input tokens and $0.66 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on Respan?

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4 providers serve Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: OpenRouter, TogetherAI, and Parasail. TogetherAI requires your own provider API key (BYOK).

Question 4

What is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct's context window?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct accepts up to 262K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "qwen3-vl-8b-instruct". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 43 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 0.5 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
OpenRouter`openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct`	262K	$0.12/M	$0.45/M
TogetherAIBYOK only`together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct`	262K	$0.18/M	$0.68/M
Parasail`parasail/parasail-qwen3vl-8b-instruct`	262K	$0.25/M	$0.75/M
Parasail`parasail/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct`	262K	$0.25/M	$0.75/M

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