DEPRECATED
Retired 2026-04-16 — 167 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.
state=dead sunset=2026-04-16 days_remaining=-167 severity=critical sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-30 15:40Z
alibaba/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
Vendor: alibaba. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.
What each source reports
| Source | ID | Context | Max out | In $/Mtok | Out $/Mtok | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| litellm | openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct | 262,144 | 32,768 | $0.117 | $0.455 | 2026-04-16 |
| openrouter | qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct | 262,144 | 32,768 | $0.117 | $0.455 | 2026-10-09 |
Change history
| Severity | Change | What | Detected |
|---|---|---|---|
| critical | deprecated | openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct: deprecation announced for 2026-10-09 — in 13 days | 2026-09-26 |
| critical | deprecated | openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct: retires 2026-10-09 (in 13 days) | 2026-09-26 |
| critical | deprecated | qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct: retirement announced for 2026-10-09 — in 14 days | 2026-09-25 |
| critical | deprecated | qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct: retires 2026-10-09 (in 14 days) | 2026-09-25 |
| info | deprecated | together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: deprecation announced for 2026-04-16 (date already passed) | 2026-09-25 |
| low | added | new model together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct (262,144 ctx) | 2026-09-24 |
| medium | removed | [one catalog only — litellm, openrouter still list it] together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail | 2026-09-23 |
| 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 |