Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct vs Sao10K Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is 2.3× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 131K tokens.
- Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is the newer model (released 2025-10-14).
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Qwen | Sao10K |
| Released | 2025-10-14 | 2024-08-28 |
| Input / 1M | $0.25 | $0.85 |
| Output / 1M | $0.75 | $0.85 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.12 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.375 | $0.85 |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Max output | 236K | 16K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.75 | $0.85 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.86% | 99.78% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
$26.25 per month$0.88 per day
Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2
$63.75 per month$2.13 per day
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct saves $37.50 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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