Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct vs Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking: API price and specs

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct is 67% cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking on input price.

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct is 93% cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking on output price.

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct is 85% cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking has a 100% larger context than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct.

Field	Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.06	$0.18 +200%
Median input, per 1M	$0.66 +266.7%	$0.18
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.15	$2.09 +1293.3%
Median output, per 1M	$1.00	$2.09 +109%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.09	$0.60 +564.4%
Context	131K +50%	262K
Max output	41K	33K +20%
Providers	9	2 +77.8%
Regions	GLOBAL	—
Accepts	text	image, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	deepinfra	deepinfra

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

deepinfra, kilo

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct is 67% cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking on input price. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct is 93% cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking on output price. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct is 85% cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct: 131K tokens; Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking: 262K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?

deepinfra, kilo