Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking vs Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking at $0.207 in and $2.42 out and Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 at $0.299 in and $1.79 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen

0.3¢

for a client proposal

$0.207 in · $2.42 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

Qwen

0.29¢

for a client proposal

$0.299 in · $1.79 out / 1M

1M context · released 6 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.59¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking at $0.207 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 at $1.79 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

0.16¢

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

0.15¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

0.3¢

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

0.29¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

$0.05

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

0.97¢

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

1.2¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

$0.08

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

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Pricing

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

Input / 1M tokens

$0.207

$0.299

Output / 1M tokens

$2.42

$1.79

Specs

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

Provider

Qwen

Released

October 2025

6 months ago

Context window

131K

Max output

33K

66K

Input

Images and Text

Text, Images, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

—

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen

0.16¢

for this task

26% input · 74% output

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Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

Qwen

0.15¢

for this task

40% input · 60% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.31¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,604 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.29¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking pricing →Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking or Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 at 0.29¢; Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking at 0.3¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking and Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.59¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.59¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.