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 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 medi
Context window
This model accepts 131K tokens in one request (~98K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- Won't fitSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
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- Context window
- 131,072 tokens (131K)
- Max output tokens
- 32,768 tokens (33K)
- Speed tier
- fast
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Model family
- Qwen
- Release date
- Oct 2025
Capabilities
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- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Not supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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