# qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Calls to the model qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct on Novita AI stopped working on July 1, 2026.

Novita AI retired the model qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct on July 1, 2026. Calls specifying this model fail after this retirement time. Requests sent to api.novita.ai using this model ID are no longer served.

## What to use instead

Update your requests to use the recommended replacement model qwen/qwen3.6-27b.

- API: Novita AI (api.novita.ai)
- Model: qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct
- Released: October 14, 2025 (models.dev)
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: July 1, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct`
- Source: [Model notices](https://novita.ai/docs/llms-full.txt#deprecation-notice)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Novita AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/novita-ai/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct/

## Novita AI's words

> Model ID: qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct; Retirement time: Jul 1, 2026, 00:00 UTC; Replacement model: qwen/qwen3.6-27b

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent