Is qwen3-vl-8b-instruct deprecated?

Q: Is qwen3-vl-8b-instruct deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-04-16 — 153 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-04-16 — 153 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail. Sources disagree on: context_tokens, input_price_per_mtok, max_output_tokens, output_price_per_mtok.

state=dead sunset=2026-04-16 days_remaining=-153 severity=critical sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=context_tokens,input_price_per_mtok,max_output_tokens,output_price_per_mtok checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Vendor: alibaba. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct	4,096	4,096	$0.2	$0.2	2026-04-16
openrouter	qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct	262,144	32,768	$0.117	$0.455	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	added	new model together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct (262,144 ctx)	2026-09-13
info	deprecated	together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: retires 2026-04-16 (150 days ago)	2026-09-13
low	added	new model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct (262,144 ctx)	2026-09-06