Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Name: Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Author: Alibaba Qwen

Catalogue only Open weights

Sovereignty and hosting

Catalogue only

This model is catalogued for reference. It is not hosted on LLM EU yet, and no first-party endpoint serves it here. Requests to it go to the provider directly, under that provider's own terms.

Summary

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is the small vision-language model of the Qwen3-VL generation, with a native 256k-token context that the vendor says can be extended to 1M. It handles images and hours-long video, and is published under Apache-2.0. At 8.8B parameters it is one of the smallest current open models that combine document understanding with long context.

Specifications

Provider: Alibaba Qwen (CN)
Context window: 262k
Parameters: 8.77B
Modalities: text, vision
License: apache-2.0 · licence
Open weights: yes
Release date: 11 Oct 2025
Tasks: vision, rag, summarization, multilingual-support

Languages

Strong: en, zh

Adequate: de, fr, es, it, pt, ru, ja, ko, ar

Languages

Strong

Adequate

Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. — a language is listed as strong only where a source claims it; the card links the evidence where one exists.

When to use it

Strengths

native 256k-token context for documents and long video
runs on a single mid-range accelerator at BF16
Apache-2.0 licence

Limits

vendor benchmarks are self-reported
vision quality below the larger Qwen3-VL sizes
no evaluation has been run by LLM EU

Pricing

This model is catalogued for reference. It is not hosted on LLM EU yet, and no first-party endpoint serves it here. Requests to it go to the provider directly, under that provider's own terms.

Verification status

Where a field has no source, the card shows it as unverified instead of filling it in. An empty field is information.

LLM EU Verified means documented, not legally certified. It is not an AI Act conformity assessment and LLM EU is not an EU body.

Versions and variants

catalogue · Catalogue only · weights

Example request

curl https://api.llmeu.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMEU_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen3-vl-8b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

No playground is deployed for this model: no endpoint serves it, so a request would have nowhere to go.

Benchmarks

No published evaluation. This is a gap, not a hidden result.

Sources

huggingface.co

Card changelog

11 Oct 2025 — Release date
19 Sept 2026 — Last reviewed

Last reviewed: 19 Sept 2026

Tasks

Vision