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Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Qwen3-VL is a vision-language instruction-tuned model capable of understanding text and images. It supports streaming, OCR, and rich multimodal conversations.

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api_example.sh

curl -X POST "https://platform.qubrid.com/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer QUBRID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": "What is in this image? Describe the main elements."
        },
        {
          "type": "image_url",
          "image_url": {
            "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 2048,
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "stream": true,
  "top_p": 0.9,
  "presence_penalty": 0
}'

Technical Specifications

Model Architecture & Performance

Variant Instruct
Model Size 9B params
Context Length 32K Tokens
Quantization fp16
Tokens/sec 386
Architecture Transformer decoder-only (Qwen3-VL with ViT visual encoder)
Precision fp16 / bf16
License Apache 2.0
Release Date 2024
Developers Alibaba Cloud (QwenLM)
Layers 28
Hidden Size 3584
Attention Heads 28

Pricing

Pay-per-use, no commitments

Input Tokens $0.25/1M Tokens
Output Tokens $0.44/1M Tokens

API Reference

Complete parameter documentation

Parameter Type Default Description
stream boolean true Enable streaming responses for real-time output.
temperature number 0.7 Controls randomness in output
max_tokens number 2048 Maximum tokens to generate
top_p number 0.9 Controls nucleus sampling
top_k number 50 Limits sampling to top-k tokens
presence_penalty number 0 Discourages repeated tokens

Explore the full request and response schema in our external API documentation

Resources

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Performance

Strengths & considerations

Strengths Considerations
Strong vision-language capabilities
Multilingual OCR
Flexible image inputs (URL or base64)
Fast streaming support
Requires clear images
High memory usage on long contexts
No image generation

Use cases

Recommended applications for this model

Image captioning
Visual question answering
OCR & scene text reading
Document layout analysis
Multimodal chat

Enterprise
Platform Integration

Docker

Docker Support

Official Docker images for containerized deployments

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Ready

Production-grade KBS manifests and Helm charts

SDK

SDK Libraries

Official SDKs for Python, Javascript, Go, and Java

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