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Released October 14, 2025

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.

Inputs
Image
Text
Outputs
Text

Model Overview

Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits

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.

Benchmark Performance

Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis

8.2%
Intelligence

Accuracy & Capability Details

GPQA - Graduate Science57.9%
Humanity's Last Exam3.8%
SciCode - Scientific Coding21.9%
Instruction Following39.9%
Long Context Reasoning33.3%
τ²-Bench - Agentic Tasks22.5%
TerminalBench - System Control3.8%

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Model Details
General Info
ProviderAlibabaAnthropicAnthropic
Release DateOctober 14, 2025September 22, 2026September 28, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff--Jun 2026
Context & Limits
Context Window256K
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 Index8.2
57.6
Best Intelligence Index
56.0
Coding Index---
Agentic Index---
Qwen3 VL 8B
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Humanity's Last Exam

Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.

4%
Qwen3 VL 8B
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 4%
Qwen3 VL 8B
61%
Claude Opus 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 61%
Claude Opus 5.5
55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Long Context Reasoning

Logical reasoning over long context windows.

33%
Qwen3 VL 8B
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 33%
Qwen3 VL 8B
85%
Claude Opus 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 85%
Claude Opus 5.5
83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

SciCode Benchmark

Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.

22%
Qwen3 VL 8B
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 22%
Qwen3 VL 8B
67%
Claude Opus 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 67%
Claude Opus 5.5
61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.

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