Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct

Name: Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct
Author: Alibaba

Multimodal

Alibaba

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is a compact 4B-parameter multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen team, released in September 2025. It provides strong document and GUI understanding for its size, scoring 0.95 on DocVQA and 0.94 on ScreenSpot. It is Apache 2.0 licensed and open-weight.

Key Specifications

Parameters

4.0B

Context

262.1K

Release Date

September 22, 2025

Average Score

92.3%

API Documentation Research Paper Results Blog

Timeline

Key dates in the model's history

Announcement

September 22, 2025

Last Update

August 27, 2026

Technical Specifications

Parameters

4.0B

Training Tokens

Knowledge Cutoff

Family

Capabilities

MultimodalZeroEval

Pricing & Availability

Input (per 1M tokens)

$0.10

Output (per 1M tokens)

$0.60

Max Input Tokens

262.1K

Max Output Tokens

262.1K

Supported Features

Function CallingStructured OutputCode ExecutionWeb SearchBatch InferenceFine-tuning

Benchmark Results

Model performance metrics across various tests and benchmarks

Other Tests

Specialized benchmarks

DocVQA

Self-reported by the model provider • Self-reported

95.0%

ScreenSpot

Self-reported by the model provider • Self-reported

94.0%

OCRBench

Self-reported by the model provider • Self-reported

88.0%

License & Metadata

License

apache-2.0

Announcement Date

September 22, 2025

Last Updated

August 27, 2026

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