The request names a specific Qwen3-VL 4B MLX 8-bit build, which none of the candidate sources list directly. The closest hosted route is Replicate's Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct model 15, with other vision-capable models and hosts as alternatives 268.
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Replicatereplicate.comverified and signed
Hosts open-source models behind a cloud API; its indexed action lucataco/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct runs a vision-language model from the Qwen series 5, a larger sibling of the requested 4B build.
for agents: lucataco/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
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OpenRouteropenrouter.aiverified and signed
A unified API across many model providers; its image+text->text model route takes an image and text and returns text 6, which can serve Qwen3-VL-style vision tasks.
for agents: tool-calling · structured-outputs · image+text->text
Sources
- 1Replicate - Run AI with an APIreplicate.com · read 2026-10-29
- 2OpenRouteropenrouter.ai · read 2026-10-29
- 5lucataco/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct: declares "lucataco/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct" (the record we read and signed)unfragile.ai · read 2026-10-24
- 6Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: declares "tool-calling" (the record we read and signed)unfragile.ai · read 2026-10-24
- 8Cloudflare API: declares "workers-ai-post-run-model" (the record we read and signed)unfragile.ai · read 2026-10-24
For agents: the 10 actions behind this answer
lucataco/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct · lucataco/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct verified and signed
A powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 · qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 verified and signed
Updated Qwen3 model for instruction following
lucataco/qwen2-vl-7b-instruct · lucataco/qwen2-vl-7b-instruct verified and signed
Latest model in the Qwen family for chatting with video and image models
zsxkib/qwen2-1.5b-instruct · zsxkib/qwen2-1.5b-instruct verified and signed
Qwen 2: A 1.5 billion parameter language model from Alibaba Cloud, fine tuned for chat completions
prunaai/qwen3-32b · prunaai/qwen3-32b verified and signed
A 2x faster qwen 3 model through pruna oss
meta/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct · meta/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct verified and signed
An 8 billion parameter language model from Meta, fine tuned for chat completions
tool-calling · Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct verified and signed
Can call tools (function calling).
lucataco/qwen3-embedding-8b · lucataco/qwen3-embedding-8b verified and signed
The Qwen3 Embedding model series is specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks
ibm-granite/granite-3.1-8b-instruct · ibm-granite/granite-3.1-8b-instruct verified and signed
Granite-3.1-8B-Instruct is a lightweight and open-source 8B parameter model is designed to excel in instruction following tasks such as summarization, problem-solving, text translation, reasoning, code tasks, function-calling, and more.
ibm-granite/granite-3.0-8b-instruct · ibm-granite/granite-3.0-8b-instruct verified and signed
Granite-3.0-8B-Instruct is a lightweight and open-source 8B parameter model is designed to excel in instruction following tasks such as summarization, problem-solving, text translation, reasoning, code tasks, function-calling, and more.
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