Qwen3 VL 8B
Alibaba Qwen3 VL 8B is a dense vision-language model with 256K context, DeepStack multi-level ViT fusion, and interleaved-MRoPE temporal-spatial encoding.
Model Overview
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Qwen3 VL 8B - Qwen3-VL 8B dense vision-language model
Qwen3 VL 8B is the dense member of the Qwen3‑VL family focused on multimodal understanding across text, images, and video. It combines long-context multimodal inputs with architecture improvements that explicitly target spatial-temporal alignment between visual features and text.
Defining technical ideas
- Interleaved‑MRoPE pairs positional encodings across spatial and temporal axes to make long, interleaved multimodal contexts coherent for reasoning.
- DeepStack leverages multi-level ViT representations rather than single-stage visual tokens to improve fine-grained alignment between visual features and text.
Usage focus
Qwen3 VL 8B is positioned for tasks that require sustained cross-referencing of long documents, multi-image and video reasoning, and stronger pure-text understanding within a multimodal backbone.
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| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Alibaba | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | October 14, 2025 | September 22, 2026 | September 28, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | - | - | Jun 2026 |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 256K | 1M Best Context Window | 1M Best Context Window |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.18 Best Input Pricing | $4 | $2 |
| Output Pricing | $2.10 Best Output Pricing | $20 | $10 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | imagetext | textimagefile | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 8.2 | 57.6 Best Intelligence Index | 56.0 |
| Coding Index | - | - | - |
| Agentic Index | - | - | - |
Humanity's Last Exam
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Long Context Reasoning
Logical reasoning over long context windows.
SciCode Benchmark
Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.
Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.
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