Worth reading Picked by rule from 21 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.
Why it matters Piece Source
Most discussed · 490 HN pts
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
Field report
bestllmfor.com
Field report
benchgecko.ai
Latest · 36 days ago
grigio.org 2026-09-19 2 HN pts about the Qwen3 family family
21 best of 21 tracked The 4 picks above, plus these 17. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.
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Top Newest
Article Qwen3-Coder-Next qwen.ai · 2026-02-03 · official Article Qwen3-Max-Thinking qwen.ai · 2026-01-26 · official Article Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation qwen.ai · 2026-01-22 · official Article Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers venturebeat.com · 2026-02-28 · 461 HN pts Article Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster qwenlm.github.io · 2025-04-28 · 869 HN pts · official Article Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world qwenlm.github.io · 2025-07-22 · official Article Qwen3-Next qwen.ai · 2025-09-12 · official Article Qwen3-VL qwen.ai · 2025-09-23 · official Code Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video github.com · 2025-09-22 Article Qwen3 14B (non-reasoning) - Intelligence, Performance & ... artificialanalysis.ai · undated Article Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch magazine.sebastianraschka.com · undated Code Show HN: I Added Support for Qwen3-ASR and Qwen3 ForcedAligner in WhisperX github.com · 2026-04-14 Article I swept all 667 layer duplication configs for Qwen3-4B on 1x RTX 3090 austinsnerdythings.com · 2026-04-14 Article Migrating Elderly Care AI from Qwen 3 to 3.5 on Apple Silicon – 14x Latency Fix medium.com · 2026-03-03 · 2 HN pts Article Qwen3-14B Review — Benchmarks, Pricing & AI Panel Verdict | TopReviewed.ai topreviewed.ai · undated Article Qwen3-14B (Thinking) — benchmarks, pricing & hardware fit · Model Beats modelbeats.com · undated Article Qwen 3 14B Architecture Explained pythonalchemist.com · 2025-04-29 Show all 17 Where to run it Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.
Prices for the same weights vary 2× 3 providers with a live price, from $0.070 to $0.12 per million input tokens; the median is $0.10. One dot per provider, cheapest in teal.
$0.010 $0.10 $1.00 $10.00 Nscale: $0.070 in / $0.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/Qwen/Qwen3-14B?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping NextBit: $0.10 in / $0.22 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-14b DeepInfra: $0.12 in / $0.24 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/Qwen/Qwen3-14B?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping cheapest $0.070 median $0.10
$0.010 $0.10 $1.00 $10.00 Nscale: $0.070 in / $0.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/Qwen/Qwen3-14B?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping NextBit: $0.10 in / $0.22 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-14b DeepInfra: $0.12 in / $0.24 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/Qwen/Qwen3-14B?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping cheapest $0.070 · median $0.10 (white tick)
# Cheapest 4 In /1M Out /1M Context Quant Seen 1 Nscale $0.070 $0.20 40K — Oct 25 2 NextBit $0.10 $0.22 40K int4 Oct 24 3 DeepInfra $0.12 $0.24 40K fp8 Oct 25 4 Featherless — — — — Oct 25
All 4 providers →
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 4 API providers; heavily run locally (230 quantized builds); a big base for builders (1,637 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).
As a service 4 DeepInfra, Featherless, NextBit, Nscale On own hardware 230 quantized builds Built on 1,637 369 fine-tunes · 1,246 adapters · 22 merges In apps 100+ Hugging Face Spaces Top Spaces running it: Qwen/Qwen3-Demo ♥ 868 · embedl/hfviewer ♥ 181 · HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-Release ♥ 54 · ISEEKYAN/megatron_memory_estimator ♥ 35
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 card 64 GB Mac 2×80 GB 8×80 GB INT4: about 8.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra) INT4 8.9 GB FP8: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra) FP8 18 GB BF16: about 35 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra) BF16 35 GB
16 GB card 64 GB Mac 2×80 GB 8×80 GB INT4: about 8.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra) INT4 8.9 GB FP8: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra) FP8 18 GB BF16: about 35 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra) BF16 35 GB
Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate
How it scores Third-party measurements only; author-reported numbers stay in Reference , marked as such.
#11 of 28 on BFCL so far 41.03. Each tick is a model on this site with a measured BFCL row; author-reported numbers stay in Reference. Percent (overall accuracy). FC
zai-org/GLM-4.6: 72.38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 59.06 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 54.12 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 52.15 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-32B: 48.71 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 47.99 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-32B: 46.78 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Salesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r: 46.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-8B: 42.57 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 41.39 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-8B: 40.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 36.7 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.52 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.9 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-12b-it: 30.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-27b-it: 29.47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html microsoft/phi-4: 28.79 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B: 28.41 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct: 28.13 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: 25.83 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 23.93 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 22.38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct: 21.95 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-4b-it: 19.62 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-1b-it: 7.17 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html 0 100 41.03 · #11 of 28
zai-org/GLM-4.6: 72.38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 59.06 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 54.12 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 52.15 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-32B: 48.71 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 47.99 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-32B: 46.78 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Salesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r: 46.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-8B: 42.57 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 41.39 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-8B: 40.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 36.7 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.52 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.9 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-12b-it: 30.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-27b-it: 29.47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html microsoft/phi-4: 28.79 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B: 28.41 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct: 28.13 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: 25.83 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 23.93 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 22.38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct: 21.95 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-4b-it: 19.62 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html google/gemma-3-1b-it: 7.17 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html 0 100 41.03 · #11 of 28
Source · leaderboard · 2026-10-25
The story so far Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.
5 dated articles and 22 repo commits so far Teal is the weights (2025-04-27), amber triangles are 5 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.
What people built on it 1,867 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.
1,867 derivatives on the Hub, most of them adapters From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.
230 quantized (Hugging Face model tree) 369 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree) 22 merges (Hugging Face model tree) 1,246 adapters (Hugging Face model tree) 230 quantized369 fine-tunes22 merges1,246 adapters
230 quantized (Hugging Face model tree) 369 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree) 22 merges (Hugging Face model tree) 1,246 adapters (Hugging Face model tree) 230 quantized369 fine-tunes22 merges1,246 adapters
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Reference Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.
Benchmarks 2 rows Benchmarks 2 rows measured third-party leaderboard row (2)author-reported number from the model card or eval filesNo confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
Benchmark Value Setting / notes Reported by Date measured BFCL · Call tools and APIs 41.03 percent (overall accuracy) FC5 sub-scores Non-Live AST Acc : 84.94Live Acc : 80.01Multi Turn Acc : 34.75Web Search Acc : 10Memory Acc : 19.57 leaderboard 2026-10-25 measured BFCL · Call tools and APIs 37.77 percent (overall accuracy) Prompt5 sub-scores Non-Live AST Acc : 89.46Live Acc : 79.35Multi Turn Acc : 26.13Web Search Acc : 10.5Memory Acc : 11.18 leaderboard 2026-10-25
What the card says 1 cited sentence 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 21 fields Listed in LLMs
Facts Pipeline tag text-generation Library transformers Architectures Qwen3ForCausalLM Model type qwen3 Dtype bfloat16 Params by dtype BF16: 14,768,307,200 Size band L MoE no Context length 40,960 (config.json max_position_embeddings) Papers arXiv:2309.00071 , arXiv:2505.09388 License Apache 2.0 (apache-2.0) Hub snapshot 2026-10-25
Servability vLLM · SGLang Hardware fit 3 estimates Hardware fit ESTIMATE Weights-only memory for Qwen3-14B: 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 Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-14B-Base
quantized: 230 finetune: 369 merge: 22 adapter: 1,246
Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads) Repository changelog 22 commits Repository changelog 22 commits Date Commit SHA 2025-07-26 Create LICENSE 40c0698 2025-05-21 Update README.md 8268fe3 2025-05-19 update tokenizer_config.json ec3b510 2025-04-29 Update README.md 231c69a 2025-04-28 Update README.md 3cd050e 2025-04-28 Update README.md c4ea67b 2025-04-28 Update README.md d09ed4e 2025-04-28 Update README.md ad3a9e3 2025-04-28 Delete special_tokens_map.json 1847c18 2025-04-28 Delete added_tokens.json 82958e5 2025-04-28 Update README.md 8c0abbf 2025-04-28 Update README.md d2bb60f 2025-04-28 Update README.md c51995b 2025-04-28 Update README.md c321b93 2025-04-28 Update README.md d17b97c 2025-04-28 Update README.md 1ad2507 2025-04-28 Update README.md bf314a7 2025-04-28 Delete .mv a862f03 2025-04-28 Delete .msc 5ffe38c 2025-04-28 Delete configuration.json 95c99ff 2025-04-28 Upload folder using huggingface_hub f8c293d 2025-04-27 initial commit 90e3864
All providers 4 providers · 4 endpoints Where to run 4 providers · 4 endpoints Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen3-14B, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.07/M .
Provider Model ref Context Quant $/M in $/M out tok/s TTFT Tools Status Observed Nscalehf
Qwen/Qwen3-14B 40K — $0.07 $0.20 91.2 383 ms yes live 2026-10-25 NextBitopenrouter
qwen/qwen3-14b 40K int4 $0.10 $0.22 — — — live 2026-10-24 DeepInfrahf, deepinfra, openrouter
Qwen/Qwen3-14B 40K fp8 $0.12 $0.24 104.1 154 ms yes live 2026-10-25 Featherlesshf
Qwen/Qwen3-14B — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25
Articles and coverage 21 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.io 2025-04-28 official authority HN front page about the Qwen3 family HN 869 pts · 388 comments 2,139 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. Analysis9 venturebeat.com 2026-02-28 HN front page about the Qwen3 family HN 461 pts · 272 comments
magazine.sebastianraschka.com 2025-08-10 authority HN front page about the Qwen3 family HN 490 pts · 97 comments 5,195 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. grigio.org 2026-09-19 about the Qwen3 family HN 2 pts · 0 comments
artificialanalysis.ai authority
magazine.sebastianraschka.com authority about the Qwen3 family
medium.com 2026-03-03 about the Qwen3 family HN 2 pts · 1 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (21) — append-only, nothing is ever removed Papers 2 papers Papers 2 arXiv links found in the model card and its tags. "Peer-reviewed" is shown only with evidence: a published venue in OpenAlex (measured) or the authors' own journal reference on arXiv (reported).
Similar models 3 models Similar models phi-4 · 14.7B same size band (L), same task (text-generation), fewer providers, permissive license
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B · 14.8B same size band (L), same task (text-generation), fewer providers, permissive license
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct · 14.8B same size band (L), same task (text-generation), fewer providers, permissive license
Sources 4 sources Sources Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:32 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 14:59 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25
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