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Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is a language model from Qwen, released in September 2025, with multimodal input, a 262K-token context window, and pricing from $0.100/M input and $0.600/M output.

Qwen3-VL is a large multimodal model that unifies vision, language, and reasoning to achieve human-level perception and cognition across text, images, and video. Built on a 235B-parameter architecture, it integrates early joint training of

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

How Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct performs across real-world prompt categories.

Performance by conversation depth

How Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct pricing

Providers

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct starts at $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens via DeepInfra.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.100$0.600262.1K/262.1K
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct model size

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct has 4 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters
4B
Small (3–10B)
4B
1B7B70B405B

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct context window

Input and output token limits for Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
262Ktokens
262Ktokens
394 pages of text
262K
8K128K1M

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct API

POST/v1/chat/completions

Run a request to see the response

Use it in your code

Billed at $0.10 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen3-vl-4b-instruct",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct latency

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct examples

Recent arena outputs from Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct license

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 4.0B parameters.

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
4.0B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct resources

Official sources for Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct: api documentation, official playground, official launch post, source repository, model weights.

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct are Command R+, Gemini 1.5 Flash, Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512). Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct

Models ranked just above and below Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct by LLM Stats score.

 

Command R+

Score pending
 

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Score pending
 

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512)

Score pending
 

Nova Micro

Score pending
 

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Score pending
 

Kimi K2 Instruct

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct.

When was Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct released?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct was released on September 22, 2025 by Qwen. This is the official Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct cost?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens through the LLM Stats API, which works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK. Across tracked providers, the lowest price is $0.10 per million input tokens via DeepInfra.

Is Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct available via API?

Yes. Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is available through the LLM Stats API and works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — point your client at the gateway base URL and pass the model name. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct has 4 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct was created by Qwen.

What is the license for Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct multimodal?

Yes, Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is available through 1 provider including DeepInfra.

Where is the Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct paper or technical report?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct has a paper or technical report available at https://qwen.ai/blog?id=99f0335c4ad9ff6153e517418d48535ab6d8afef&from=research.latest-advancements-list. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct against?

Common Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct comparisons include Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct vs Command R+, Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct vs Gemini 1.5 Flash, Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct vs Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512). Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.