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Qwen 3 8B

Alibaba

Released
April 27, 2025
Data date
September 8, 2026
Benchmark-Meta-Score
Unavailable
No independent results
Speed
39.2 tokens/s
Output throughput
Price
Historical rates under Costs
Input
Text
Output
Text

Qwen 3 8B carries Qwen3's switchable Thinking setup into a dense 8.2-billion-parameter checkpoint. You can request additional reasoning steps or answer directly.

Its 36 layers use grouped-query attention with 32 Q heads and 8 KV heads. Qwen lists 32,768 native context tokens and up to 131,072 tokens with YaRN.

Specifications and access

SpecificationValue and source
Weights
Open weightsSource
Access
LocalSource
Parameters
8.2BSource
Context window
32,768 tokensSource
Weights repository
Qwen/Qwen3-8BSource
License
Apache-2.0Source
Architecture
Qwen3 causal language model; dense or sparse MoESource
Input
TextSource
Output
TextSource
Reasoning mode
base checkpoint; report evaluates pre-training onlySource
Tool calling
Structured output
Native context window
32,768 tokensSource
Maximum context window
131,072 tokensSource
Parameters
8.2 BSource
Languages
119 languages and dialectsSource
Repository created
2025-04-27 (Repository creation date is a precise publication proxy, but may differ from the public announcement date or an individual checkpoint's first availability.)Source
Training tokens
36 trillionSource