Qwen3.8 27B vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
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Qwen3.8 27B vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Comparison Table
Evals updated August 27, 2026Pricing updated August 28, 2026
| Property | Qwen3.8 27B | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Qwen | Qwen |
| Category | open | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Oct 2025 |
| Context Window | 262K | 262K |
| Parameters | 27.78B | 31B |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.425 | $0.130 |
| Output $/1M | $2.55 | $0.520 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Demo |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | Demo |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 61.2% | Not evaluated |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0016 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 7.33s | – |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection | 54.5% $0.0031 | – |
| Counting | 41.9% $0.0005 | – |
| Identification | 78.1% $0.0004 | – |
| OCR | 81.4% $0.0016 | – |
| Data Extraction | 79.4% $0.0005 | – |
| Reasoning (low) | 31.8% $0.0005 | – |
| Reasoning (high) | 62.3% $0.0070 | – |
Qwen3.8 27B vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: Overview
Qwen3.8-27B is a dense vision-language model of roughly 27.78 billion parameters from Alibaba's Qwen team, built on the architectural foundation established by the Qwen3.5 generation. It takes interleaved text, image, and video input through an integrated vision encoder and produces text, covering document and chart understanding, visual question answering, front-end code generation from visual references, and agentic computer-use workflows. The decoder is a hybrid stack of 64 layers that repeats a pattern of three Gated DeltaNet linear-attention blocks, each followed by a feed-forward block, then one grouped-query full-attention block, so only a quarter of the layers maintain a conventional key-value cache. Native context length is 262,144 tokens.
Post-training targets long-horizon agentic work, and the model exposes per-request thinking control that lets callers switch reasoning traces on or off and choose a reasoning effort level. Multi-token prediction weights are trained alongside the main network for speculative decoding. Qwen reports improvements over Qwen3.6-27B on agentic and multimodal evaluations including Terminal-Bench 2.1, OSWorld-Verified, and SWE-bench Multimodal, with additional results on MathVision, CharXiv, and an internal Vision2Web suite.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal large language model developed by Alibaba as part of the Qwen family, built for instruction-following tasks that unify text generation with visual and video understanding. Released around October 2025 under the Apache-2.0 license, it targets efficient, high-fidelity vision-language reasoning across very long contexts.
The model accepts text and image inputs and produces text outputs, with strong performance in OCR, spatial reasoning, long-video understanding, and agentic or GUI-centric visual tasks. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (A3B) design with ~31.1B total parameters and ~3B active per token, paired with Qwen3-VL’s unified multimodal stack (including Interleaved-MRoPE and DeepStack fusion) to process text, images, and video in a single architecture. OCR support expands to 32 languages, enhancing document workflows. With a native ~262K token context window (extendable further), it stands out today for its balance of scale, efficiency, long-context support, and open accessibility in multimodal systems.