What is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct and what is it good for?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a Qwen vision-language model. It handles both text and visual inputs for tasks like document parsing, visual Q&A and OCR.

What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

The model supports up to 256K tokens of context, which suits long documents and multi-turn conversations.

How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?

Pricing is usage-based: $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use.

How do I access Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card required.

Is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct compatible with OpenAI code?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: AI model

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a Qwen vision-language model, with a 256K-token context window. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 262,144 tokens
Input:: $0.25/1M tokens
Output:: $0.75/1M tokens
Type:: text, image

Vision
Tools
Streaming
Long context

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a vision-language model from Alibaba's Qwen series, with a context window of up to 256K tokens; it is strong at understanding both text and images, tool calling. It runs in an instruct (non-thinking) mode tuned for fast, stable, instruction-following answers rather than visible chain-of-thought.

Through Hormouz the model is served behind an OpenAI-compatible API. Point your base URL at Hormouz, drop in a Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged. Pricing is usage-based: $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens.

Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

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...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	Qwen
Type	Text, Image
Context window	262,144 tokens
Pricing	$0.25/M in · $0.75/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Vision · Tools

Benchmarks

Reasoning

GPQA Diamond

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

42.7%

HLE

Humanity's Last Exam

2.7%

IFBench

Instruction-following

32.3%

AA-LCR

Long-context reasoning

16.7%

CritPt

Research-level physics reasoning

AA Omniscience

Broad factual knowledge accuracy

20.5%

Non-Hallucination

Rate of avoiding fabricated answers

Coding

Terminal-Bench Hard

Agentic coding & terminal use

2.3%

Agentic

τ²-Bench

Tool-use agents in dual-control scenarios

29.2%

Source: Artificial Analysis

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

What is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct and what is it good for?: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a Qwen vision-language model. It handles both text and visual inputs for tasks like document parsing, visual Q&A and OCR.
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?: The model supports up to 256K tokens of context, which suits long documents and multi-turn conversations.
How much does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost?: Pricing is usage-based: $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use.
How do I access Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card required.
Is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct compatible with OpenAI code?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and code run without a rewrite.

Updated 2026-10-13