Grok 4.7 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
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Grok 4.7 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Comparison Table
Evals updated September 22, 2026Pricing updated September 22, 2026
| Property | Grok 4.7 | Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | SpaceXAI | Qwen |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | — | multimodal |
| Release Date | Sep 2026 | Oct 2025 |
| Context Window | 500K | 256K |
| Parameters | 8.8B | |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $1.60 | $0.117 |
| Output $/1M | $4.80 | $0.455 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | ||
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | ||
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 71.9% | Not evaluated |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.012 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 23.55s | – |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 40.4% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 39.8 to 41.0 | – |
| Object Detection (high) | 41.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 39.6 to 42.8 | – |
| Counting (low) | 61.7% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.8 to 63.5 | – |
| Counting (high) | 60.8% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 59.5 to 62.2 | – |
| Identification (low) | 87.5% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6 | – |
| Identification (high) | 80.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 81.3 | – |
| OCR (low) | 92.6% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.1 to 93.4 | – |
| OCR (high) | 93.5% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.1 to 93.8 | – |
| Data Extraction (low) | 84.9% ±2.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.5 to 87.6 | – |
| Data Extraction (high) | 87.6% ±1.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.6 to 89.7 | – |
| Reasoning (low) | 64.2% ±2.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.3 to 66.9 | – |
| Reasoning (high) | 66.9% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.6 to 68.2 | – |
Grok 4.7 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: Overview
Grok 4.7 is a proprietary model from SpaceXAI, released on September 21, 2026. It accepts text and images as input and returns text. It extends Grok 4.6 and is listed at the same API price.
Its Vision Evals scores are on the leaderboard. Running it in the Playground is not available yet, because the inference workflow is not ready.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.
Grok 4.7 is released under Proprietary, while Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct uses Apache 2.0. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.