---
title: "Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API pricing"
canonical: https://uplinkswitch.ai/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
generated: 2026-10-22T20:54:04.044Z
source: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog
base_url: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1
---

# Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API pricing

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API at $0.72/M input and $2.72/M output tokens. Works with the OpenAI SDK.

## Price per million tokens (USD)

| Tokens | Qwen list price | UplinkSwitch | Under list |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Input | — | $0.72 | — |
| Cached input | — | billed at the input rate | — |
| Output | — | $2.72 | — |

## Model

- Model id: `qwen3-vl-8b-instruct`
- Formats: OpenAI SDK
- Base URL: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1
- Daily real-model check: Same fingerprint since Oct 20 (https://uplinkswitch.ai/proof#qwen3-vl-8b-instruct)

## Request

### Python · OpenAI SDK

```python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1",
    api_key="sk-uplink-live-...",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this in one line."}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)
```

### TypeScript · OpenAI SDK

```typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: 'https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1',
  apiKey: 'sk-uplink-live-...',
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'qwen3-vl-8b-instruct',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Summarize this in one line.' }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
```

### curl

```bash
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen3-vl-8b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
```

## Questions

### What is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is a model from Qwen. Through UplinkSwitch it answers the OpenAI SDK on one key as qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.

### How much does the Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API cost?

$0.72 per million input tokens and $2.72 per million output tokens.

### Is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct free?

It is pay as you go: prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee, billed per token. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token reply costs about $0.0021.

### What is the Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct model id?

qwen3-vl-8b-instruct. Send it as the model through the OpenAI SDK with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.

### How do I get a Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API key?

Create one in the console at uplinkswitch.ai/console: prepaid credit from $10, no subscription, and the key is live at once. The same key calls Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct and every other model in the catalog; send it as the bearer token with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.

### Is it the real Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Every day each model gets the same test prompt, and a model always counts that prompt the same way; a swapped one would not. Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct's latest result: Same fingerprint since Oct 20.

### Is there a Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct API?

Yes: qwen3-vl-8b-instruct on the OpenAI format at https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1, $0.72 input and $2.72 output per million tokens. No weights to download and no GPU of your own; the key also runs every other model in the catalog.

### How many parameters does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct have?

8B, dense, with a vision encoder, per Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct.

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

256K tokens natively, expandable to 1M, per Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct.

### Is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct open source?

Its weights are open on Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct); the license is Apache-2.0.

### What does Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct cost per 100 messages?

$0.28 for 100 chat turns of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, at $0.72 input and $2.72 output per million tokens, from prepaid credit with no subscription.

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