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Qwen Apache 2.0 out 18 months ago

14.8B parameters, text in, text out, 32K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #411 in LLMs · score 79.2 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 100.4k · #314 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?8.9GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?100.4kdownloads, 30 days#314 of 619 we track · below the median+3 likes, downloads +17% this week68 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 10 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 490 HN pts

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019.

  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
magazine.sebastianraschka.com 2025-08-10 490 HN pts · 97 comments 5.2k words about the Qwen3 family family

10 best of 10 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 8. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleQwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai · 2026-02-03 · official
  2. ArticleQwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai · 2026-01-26 · official
  3. ArticleQwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai · 2026-01-22 · official
  4. ArticleQwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io · 2025-04-28 · 869 HN pts · official
  5. ArticleQwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io · 2025-07-22 · official
  6. ArticleQwen3-Nextqwen.ai · 2025-09-12 · official
  7. ArticleQwen3-VLqwen.ai · 2025-09-23 · official
  8. CodeQwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com · 2025-09-22

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 1 provider →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider; 28 quantized builds for local use; a big base for builders (153 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware28quantized builds
  • Built on153107 fine-tunes · 42 adapters · 4 merges
  • In apps9Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: dqy08/InfoLens1 ♥ 22 · Girlz/TokenTrace ♥ 1

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 8.9 GB at INT4, 18 GB at FP8, 35 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 8.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT48.9 GBFP8: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP818 GBBF16: about 35 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1635 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 8.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT48.9 GBFP8: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP818 GBBF16: about 35 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1635 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

3 dated articles and 9 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2025-04-28), amber triangles are 3 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-07-26: 1 repo commit2025-05-21: 1 repo commit2025-05-20: 1 repo commit2025-04-28: 6 repo commitsQwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers · 2026-02-28Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster · 2025-04-28GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 · 2025-08-10Weights 2025-04-28 · 2025-04-28Weights 2025-04-28now · 1 provider
MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-07-26: 1 repo commit2025-05-21: 1 repo commit2025-05-20: 1 repo commit2025-04-28: 6 repo commitsQwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers · 2026-02-28Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster · 2025-04-28GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 · 2025-08-10Weights 2025-04-28 · 2025-04-28Weights 2025-04-28now · 1 provider

What people built on it

181 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

181 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

28 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)107 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 merges (Hugging Face model tree)42 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)28 quantized107 fine-tunes4 merges42 adapters
28 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)107 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 merges (Hugging Face model tree)42 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)28 quantized107 fine-tunes4 merges42 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model architecture uses 40 layers and supports a context length of 32,768 tokens.[1][2][3]

  1. architectures
  2. “Number of Layers: 40”
  3. “Context Length: 32,768”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:10 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

4 use cases

What it is good at 4 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

20 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen3ForCausalLM
Model typeqwen3
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 14,768,307,200
Size bandL
MoEno
Context length32,768 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2505.09388
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Qwen3ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Qwen3ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Qwen3-14B-Base: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)35 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)18 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)8.9 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: Qwen/Qwen3 181 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 107quantized: 28merge: 4adapter: 42

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
OpenPipe/Qwen3-14B-Instruct finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 OpenPipe 15 2.2M
unsloth/Qwen3-14B-Base-unsloth-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 14.8B L apache-2.0 unsloth 5 98.3k
AlphaGaO/Qwen3-14B-GPTQ quantized GPTQ 14.8B L apache-2.0 AlphaGaO 1 45.6k
unsloth/Qwen3-14B-Base finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 unsloth 2 29.1k
Qwen/Qwen3-14B-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 14.8B L apache-2.0 Qwen 13 27k
McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-14B finetune — 14.8B L cc-by-4.0 McGill-NLP 4 20.3k
Qwen/Qwen3-14B-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 14.8B L apache-2.0 Qwen 26 17.2k
winglian/qwen3-14b-math finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 winglian 0 16.9k
DevQuasar/Qwen.Qwen3-14B-Base-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar 0 16.2k
Cylingo/Xinyuan-LLM-14B-0428 finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 Cylingo 16 11.6k
unsloth/Qwen3-14B-Base-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 14.8B L apache-2.0 unsloth 0 10.7k
Mungert/Qwen3-14B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Mungert 8 8.2k
snuh/hari-q3-14b finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 snuh 12 7.9k
mradermacher/Qwen3-14B-Base-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 2 7.4k
TIGER-Lab/General-Reasoner-Qwen3-14B finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 TIGER-Lab 6 5.6k
HelpingAI/Dhanishtha-2.0-preview finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 HelpingAI 58 2.9k
mradermacher/Qwen3-14B-Base-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 2 5.3k
Qwen/Qwen3-14B-MLX-6bit quantized MLX 14.8B L apache-2.0 Qwen 9 4.6k
MegaScience/Qwen3-14B-MegaScience finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 MegaScience 6 4.1k
hkust-nlp/drkernel-14b-coldstart finetune — 462M S — hkust-nlp 0 3.5k
Qwen/Qwen3-14B-MLX-bf16 finetune MLX 14.8B L apache-2.0 Qwen 10 2.6k
Userb1az/Qwen3-14B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Userb1az 0 2.7k
hkust-nlp/drkernel-14b finetune — 14.8B L — hkust-nlp 6 2.4k
1nstaller/Qwen3-14B-NoThinking finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 1nstaller 0 2.5k
togethercomputer/HybridAgent-14B-Agentic finetune — 14.8B L mit togethercomputer 17 1.3k
abeja/ABEJA-Qwen3-14B-Agentic-256k-v0.1 finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 abeja 8 1.2k
AscendKernelGen/KernelGen-LM-14B finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 AscendKernelGen 1 1.5k
avi686/Qwen3-14B-heretic quantized GGUF 14.8B L apache-2.0 avi686 2 1.4k
Antigma/Qwen3-14B-Base-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Antigma 0 1.5k
Azure99/Blossom-V6.3-14B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Azure99 0 1.4k
liodon-ai/Qwen3-14B-Base-imatrix-GGUF quantized imatrix — — other liodon-ai 1 1k
xing720310/qwen3-14b finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 xing720310 0 917
ForSureTesterSim/Qwen3-14B-NSFW-FDA finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 ForSureTesterSim 2 816
ForSureTesterSim/Big-Randy-NSFW-Beta-14B merge — 14.8B L — ForSureTesterSim 0 720
aimeri/spoomplesmaxx-mini-14B finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 aimeri 1 652
itlwas/Qwen3-14B-Base-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 itlwas 0 674
Darth-Coder/my-model3-14b-it finetune — 14.8B L apache-2.0 Darth-Coder 0 644
Open4bits/Qwen3-14B-Base-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — Open4bits 0 639
noahclark556/mesh-to-cad-14b quantized — 14.8B L cc-by-nc-4.0 noahclark556 3 474
KKHYA/llavaqwen3-14b-finetune finetune — 15.1B L apache-2.0 KKHYA 0 522

Repository changelog

9 commits

Repository changelog 9 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-07-26 Create LICENSE 0b0bd37
2025-05-21 Update README.md 8aef508
2025-05-20 update tokenizer_config.json e5faa17
2025-04-28 Update README.md ae3040d
2025-04-28 Update tokenizer_config.json b22103a
2025-04-28 Upload merges.txt eb64b25
2025-04-28 Update README.md de5dcbc
2025-04-28 Upload folder using huggingface_hub ec06e99
2025-04-28 initial commit 4ad9a24

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen3-14B-Base, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Featherless
hf
Qwen/Qwen3-14B-Base — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

10 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official1

qwenlm.github.io2025-04-28officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 869 pts · 388 comments2,139 words
Qwen3 introduces Hybrid Thinking Modes, allowing users to toggle between step-by-step reasoning and rapid responses via computational budget control. The open-weight MoE model Qwen3-235B-A22B achieves performance similar to dense models while using only 10% of the active parameters. Pre-training utilized approximately 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages, with deployment supported by SGLang and vLLM.written, reviewed, cited
  • Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-14B models do not use tied embeddings, unlike smaller variants.
  • The pre-training pipeline includes a final stage extending context length to 32K tokens.

Analysis2

venturebeat.com2026-02-28HN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 461 pts · 272 comments
magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-10authorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 490 pts · 97 comments5,195 words
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. The 20B model can run on a consumer GPU with up to 16 GB of RAM, and the 120B model can run on a single H100 with 80 GB of RAM or newer hardware. The models utilize MXFP4 optimization to fit onto single GPUs.written, reviewed, cited
  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
All coverage tracked for this model (10) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computersventurebeat.com2026-02-282026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai official2026-02-032026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai official2026-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai official2026-01-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-VLqwen.ai official2025-09-232026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com2025-09-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Nextqwen.ai official2025-09-122026-10-07hn
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-102026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io official2025-07-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io official2025-04-282026-10-07hn

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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Sources

3 sources

Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:39 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:10 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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