Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight family, with a coder model in nearly every size.
Qwen is Alibaba's model family and the largest open-weight line there is — dozens of sizes from a few billion parameters up to the Max models, most of them published so you can run them yourself. For vibe coders the draw is the Qwen Coder models: strong at code for the price, cheap to call through a provider, and small enough at the low end to run on your own machine. The flagship Max models take text, images and video and go up to a million tokens of context.
At a glance — Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
- Cost
- $0.117 in · $0.455 out per 1M tokensBudget
- Memory
- 262K tokens — about 400 pages
- Reads
- Text · Images
- Can do
- Use tools (agents)
- Structured output
- Thinking mode (not supported)
- Reliability
- 99.79% uptime, last 24h
- Released
- Oct 14, 2025
Advanced details
- API model ID
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct- Max output
- 33K tokens
- Max input
- 129K tokens
- Tokenizer
- Qwen3
Providers
The same model, hosted by different companies. OpenRouter picks one per request and falls back to the next if it fails.
| Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cached /1M | Max output | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | $0.117 | $0.455 | — | 33K | 99.79% |
| Parasail · bf16 | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.12 | 236K | 99.04% |
Supported parameters
- frequency_penalty
- logit_bias
- logprobs
- max_tokens
- presence_penalty
- repetition_penalty
- response_format
- seed
- stop
- structured_outputs
- temperature
- tool_choice
- tools
- top_k
- top_logprobs
- top_p
Live from OpenRouter, refreshed hourly.
Key info
- Pricing
- Open source
- Category
- Models
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Made by
- Alibaba
- Weights
- Open, most sizes
- Good for
- Cheap coding models, and running one yourself