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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Compare Gemini 3.1 Pro and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, Open Prompt, and OCR.

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Comparison Table

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 21, 2026

PropertyGemini 3.1 ProQwen3 VL 8B Instruct
OrganizationGoogleQwen
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateFeb 2026Oct 2025
Context Window1.0M256K
Parameters8.8B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.00$0.117
Output $/1M$12.00$0.455
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
ClassificationDemo
Model Features
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Foundation Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks
Overall
84.6%
Not evaluated
Object Detection
56.9%
Counting
71.6%
Identification
100.0%
OCR
92.6%
Data Extraction
94.8%
Reasoning
91.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.0068
Avg speed / sample5.9s

Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: Overview

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro is a proprietary multimodal model from Google’s Gemini 3 series, released in early 2026 and designed for advanced reasoning across large multimodal datasets. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and documents, supporting up to a 1-million-token input context with up to 64k output tokens. Compared with Gemini 3 Pro, it improves long-context synthesis and multi-step reasoning, enabling more reliable analysis of large documents, datasets, and software codebases.

The model also advances visual understanding and grounding, allowing it to interpret UI screenshots, diagrams, and real-world scenes while referencing specific regions within images or video. These capabilities make Gemini 3.1 Pro well suited for multimodal workflows involving document processing, interface analysis, robotics research, and complex visual reasoning.

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal vision-language model developed by Qwen / Alibaba Cloud as part of the Qwen3-VL series, designed for instruction-following tasks that combine text with visual inputs such as images and video. Released around October 2025 under the Apache-2.0 license, it targets developers who need capable multimodal reasoning without the scale or cost of very large models.

The model contains roughly 8.8 billion dense parameters and supports text, image, and video understanding with strong spatial perception, visual reasoning, and emerging visual agent abilities such as GUI interaction. A standout feature is its native ~256K token context window, extendable to around 1M tokens, enabling long-document reading and extended video comprehension. In today’s landscape, it balances openness, long-context capacity, and solid multimodal performance against heavier proprietary models. Typical applications include multimodal assistants, document and video analysis, visual question answering, and research or product prototyping where transparency and deployability matter.