Overview
The Instruct version of the 8B Dense model in the Qwen3-VL series requires less GPU memory and provides comprehensively upgraded image/video understanding, support for extremely long contexts like lengthy videos and documents, spatial awareness, and object recognition capabilities, making it suitable for tackling complex real-world tasks.
Input
TextImageVideo
Output
Text
Features
Prefix Completion
Enable Partial Mode when calling the Qwen API to make the model continue strictly from your provided prefix text.View docsFunction Calling
Use function calling to connect large language models with external tools and systems.View docsCache
Context Cache stores shared prefixes for long-context requests to reduce repeated computation, improve latency, and lower cost.View docsStructured Outputs
Structured Outputs help ensure the model returns a JSON string in the expected format.View docsPricing
- Input$0.18Per 1M tokens
- Output$0.7Per 1M tokens
Rate Limits & Context
- Max Input129K
- Max Output32K
- Context131K
- TPMTokens Per Minute100K
- RPMRequests Per Minute60
API Reference
Call APICopy success!
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import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY"),
base_url="https://maas.qwencloudapi.com/compatible-mode/v1",
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3-vl-8b-instruct",
messages=[
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://help-static-aliyun-doc.aliyuncs.com/file-manage-files/zh-CN/20241108/ctdzex/biaozhun.jpg"
},
},
{"type": "text", "text": "Output the text in the image only."},
],
},
],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)