Models › Qwen3 family

Qwen Apache 2.0 out 18 months ago

8.19B parameters, text in, text out, 40K tokens of context. 2 providers serve it from $0.070 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #21 in LLMs · score 118.7 method v1 Sources 4 Downloads 30d 8.2M · #17 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 5 new quantized builds on the Hub (469 in all).2026-10-24 · 6 new quantized builds on the Hub (470 in all).2026-10-24 · 1 new provider: Nscale.2026-10-23

What does it cost?$0.070/1M incheapest of 1Nscale2026-10-25
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Does it work?42.57on BFCL#9 of 28 measuredleaderboard2026-10-25
Do people use it?8.2Mdownloads, 30 days#17 of 619 we track · top 3%+21 likes, downloads −13% this week2,142 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 21 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

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.

  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. ArticleQwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computersventurebeat.com · 2026-02-28 · 461 HN pts
  5. ArticleQwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io · 2025-04-28 · 869 HN pts · official
  6. ArticleQwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io · 2025-07-22 · official
  7. ArticleQwen3-Nextqwen.ai · 2025-09-12 · official
  8. ArticleQwen3-VLqwen.ai · 2025-09-23 · official
  9. CodeQwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com · 2025-09-22
  10. ArticleNemotron-Labs-Diffusion 8B vs Qwen3-8B: Diffusion vs AR | LLMReferencellmreference.com · 2026-05-23
  11. ArticleQwen3: The Hybrid Reasoning Model That Changes What | by RS Vino | May, 2026 | Mediummedium.com · 2026-05-02
  12. ArticleQwen3 VL 8B Thinking Review: Specs, Pricing & Benchmarks | llmdb.appllmdb.app · undated
  13. DiscussionOllama and Bifrost –> Qwen3 in Claude Codenews.ycombinator.com · 2025-09-04 · 1 HN pts
  14. ArticleQwen3-VL-4B and 8B runs locally on NPU, GPU, and CPU with one SDKnexa.ai · 2025-10-14
  15. ArticleBenchmarking Qwen3 against frontier models: A deep dive for tech analysts - EONSReonsr.com · 2026-01-06
  16. ArticleTool-Calling Agents on Laptop Intel Arc GPUs: Dockerizing Qwen3-8B with Ipex-LLMyourlabs.org · 2025-11-13
  17. ArticleQwen3-30B-A3B Deep Dive: How 128 Experts Achieve Frontier Performance at 10% Active Parameters | Pavel Nasovich's Blogforcewake.me · 2025-08-07

Where to run it

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

#Cheapest 2In /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Nscale $0.070 $0.18 40K — Oct 25
2 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 2 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 2 API providers; heavily run locally (469 quantized builds); a big base for builders (4,620 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service2Featherless, Nscale
  • On own hardware469quantized builds
  • Built on4,6202,227 fine-tunes · 2,355 adapters · 38 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: Qwen/Qwen3-Demo ♥ 868 · pliny-the-prompter/obliteratus ♥ 621 · multimodalart/self-forcing ♥ 333 · tencent/HY-Motion-1.0 ♥ 311

Will it fit?

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

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 4.9 GB at INT4, 9.8 GB at FP8, 20 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 4.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT44.9 GBFP8: about 9.8 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP89.8 GBBF16: about 20 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1620 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 4.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT44.9 GBFP8: about 9.8 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP89.8 GBBF16: about 20 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1620 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.

#9 of 28 on BFCL so far

42.57. 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.htmlmoonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 59.06 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmldeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 54.12 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 52.15 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-32B: 48.71 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 47.99 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-32B: 46.78 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlSalesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r: 46.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 41.39 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-14B: 41.03 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-14B: 37.77 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 36.7 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.52 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.9 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it: 30.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-27b-it: 29.47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmicrosoft/phi-4: 28.79 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-1.7B: 28.41 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct: 28.13 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: 25.83 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 23.93 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 22.38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct: 21.95 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it: 19.62 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-1b-it: 7.17 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html010042.57 · #9 of 28
zai-org/GLM-4.6: 72.38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmoonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct: 59.06 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmldeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 54.12 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 52.15 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-32B: 48.71 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 47.99 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-32B: 46.78 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlSalesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r: 46.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 41.39 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-14B: 41.03 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-14B: 37.77 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: 36.7 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.68 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507: 35.52 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.9 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-12b-it: 30.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-27b-it: 29.47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmicrosoft/phi-4: 28.79 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-1.7B: 28.41 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct: 28.13 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: 25.83 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 23.93 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlQwen/Qwen3-0.6B: 22.38 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlmeta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct: 21.95 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-4b-it: 19.62 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.htmlgoogle/gemma-3-1b-it: 7.17 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html010042.57 · #9 of 28

Source · leaderboard · 2026-10-25

The story so far

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

9 dated articles and 18 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2025-04-27), amber triangles are 9 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

5,089 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

5,089 derivatives on the Hub, led by 2,355 adapters

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

469 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)2,227 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)38 merges (Hugging Face model tree)2,355 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)469 quantized2,227 fine-tunes38 merges2,355 adapters
469 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)2,227 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)38 merges (Hugging Face model tree)2,355 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)469 quantized2,227 fine-tunes38 merges2,355 adapters

All variants →

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.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
measured BFCL · Call tools and APIs42.57 percent (overall accuracy)FC
5 sub-scores
  • Non-Live AST Acc: 87.58
  • Live Acc: 80.53
  • Multi Turn Acc: 41.75
  • Web Search Acc: 12
  • Memory Acc: 14.62
leaderboard2026-10-25
measured BFCL · Call tools and APIs40.43 percent (overall accuracy)Prompt
5 sub-scores
  • Non-Live AST Acc: 88.56
  • Live Acc: 80.09
  • Multi Turn Acc: 33.38
  • Web Search Acc: 13.5
  • Memory Acc: 13.12
leaderboard2026-10-25

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model architecture uses 36 layers and supports a native context length of 32,768 tokens.[1][2]

  1. “Number of Layers: 36”
  2. “Context Length: 32,768 natively”

Generated 2026-10-07 14:59 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 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 tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen3ForCausalLM
Model typeqwen3
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 8,190,735,360
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length40,960 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2309.00071, arXiv: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 Qwen3-8B: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)20 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)9.8 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)4.9 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)

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

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base (same organization) Family: Qwen/Qwen3 5,089 derivatives on the Hub

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base

quantized: 469finetune: 2,227adapter: 2,355merge: 38

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
Qwen/Qwen3-8B-AWQ quantized AWQ 8.19B M apache-2.0 Qwen 68 13.4M
Qwen/Qwen3-8B-FP8 quantized -FP8 8.19B M apache-2.0 Qwen 68 5.5M
MaziyarPanahi/Qwen3-8B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — MaziyarPanahi 11 3.5M
allenai/Molmo2-8B finetune — 8.66B M apache-2.0 allenai 198 3.3M
unsloth/Qwen3-8B-unsloth-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 8.38B M apache-2.0 unsloth 22 2.7M
Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Qwen 345 2.4M
unsloth/Qwen3-8B-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 8.41B M apache-2.0 unsloth 10 1.7M
unsloth/Qwen3-8B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 unsloth 158 1.2M
unsloth/Qwen3-8B finetune — 8.19B M apache-2.0 unsloth 16 1.2M
AnkitAI/Parable-Qwen3-8B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF finetune GGUF — — apache-2.0 AnkitAI 8 1.1M
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 8.19B M apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 3 1.1M
Open-Bee/Bee-8B-RL finetune — 8.68B M apache-2.0 Open-Bee 78 1.1M
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 8.19B M apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 2 1M
nvidia/Qwen3-8B-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 4.72B M apache-2.0 nvidia 28 965.2k
nvidia/Qwen3-8B-FP8 quantized -FP8 8.19B M apache-2.0 nvidia 9 572k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-8B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 13 504.3k
t-tech/T-lite-it-2.1 finetune — 8.19B M apache-2.0 t-tech 27 424.6k
mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit quantized -4bit 8.19B M apache-2.0 mlx-community 18 405.9k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-FP8-dynamic quantized -FP8 8.19B M apache-2.0 RedHatAI 16 360k
nytopop/Qwen3-8B.w8a8 quantized — 8.19B M apache-2.0 nytopop 1 281.1k
bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3-8B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 bartowski 41 249.5k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16 quantized -quant 8.30B M apache-2.0 RedHatAI 5 225k
AvitoTech/avibe finetune — 7.90B M apache-2.0 AvitoTech 53 216.6k
marketeam/Qwen-Marketing finetune — 8.19B M mit marketeam 57 184.1k
Lego-X/SWE-Lego-Qwen3-8B finetune — 308K S apache-2.0 Lego-X 8 183.2k
farbodtavakkoli/OTel-LLM-8.2B-IT finetune — — — apache-2.0 farbodtavakkoli 0 169.1k
nvidia/Nemotron-Orchestrator-8B finetune — 8.19B M — nvidia 601 135.2k
farbodtavakkoli/OTel-Reranker-8B finetune — 7.57B M apache-2.0 farbodtavakkoli 0 160.5k
huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v2 finetune — 8.19B M apache-2.0 huihui-ai 69 139.7k
Goedel-LM/Goedel-Prover-V2-8B finetune — 8.19B M apache-2.0 Goedel-LM 27 109k
Skywork/Skywork-Reward-V2-Qwen3-8B finetune — 7.57B M apache-2.0 Skywork 25 100.4k
amazon/GDN-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct finetune — 8.50B M apache-2.0 amazon 2 90.3k
unsloth/Qwen3-8B-128K-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 unsloth 28 88.1k
amazon/Mamba2-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct finetune — 8.50B M apache-2.0 amazon 10 71.4k
amazon/BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct finetune — 9.26B L apache-2.0 amazon 2 71k
mlc-ai/Qwen3-8B-q4f32_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 0 70k
inference-optimization/Qwen3-8B-from-Qwen3-8B_regen-speculators.eagle3-qwen3arch-ckpt1 finetune — 1.02B S apache-2.0 inference-optimization 0 60.9k
inference-optimization/Qwen3-8B-speculators.peagle-qwen3arch-ckpt4 finetune — 1.60B S apache-2.0 inference-optimization 1 58.9k
mtzig/qwen3-8b-tfdark-lora2 adapter — — — apache-2.0 mtzig 0 53.2k
Alibaba-NLP/E2Rank-8B finetune — 7.57B M apache-2.0 Alibaba-NLP 5 52.7k

Repository changelog

18 commits
changed in the last 7 daysNew providers: 2026-10-23Other: 2026-10-24, 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 18 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-07-26 Create LICENSE b968826
2025-05-21 Update README.md 9c925d6
2025-05-19 update tokenizer_config.json 895c8d1
2025-04-29 Update README.md 2069b3f
2025-04-28 Update README.md a80f5e5
2025-04-28 Update README.md 952491a
2025-04-28 Update README.md a0809d1
2025-04-28 Delete special_tokens_map.json e8bbd82
2025-04-28 Delete added_tokens.json f4b2181
2025-04-28 Update README.md e59adc0
2025-04-28 Update README.md 90bb9b8
2025-04-28 Update README.md d117af2
2025-04-28 Update README.md 5844a1f
2025-04-28 Update README.md 3176aa2
2025-04-28 Update README.md 199bdb8
2025-04-28 Update README.md 1808139
2025-04-28 Upload folder using huggingface_hub 47719a2
2025-04-27 initial commit 6a51b0c

All providers

2 providers · 2 endpoints

Where to run 2 providers · 2 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen3-8B, 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.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Nscale
hf
Qwen/Qwen3-8B 40K — $0.07 $0.18 86.8 437 ms yes live 2026-10-25
Featherless
hf
Qwen/Qwen3-8B — — — — — — — 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.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.

Analysis8

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.
flechetechstream.com2026-07-28about the Qwen3 family
llmreference.com2026-05-23
medium.com2026-05-02about the Qwen3 family
switchy.build
exa.ai2026-04-10
eonsr.com2026-01-06about the Qwen3 family

Community1

news.ycombinator.com2025-09-04about the Qwen3 familyHN 1 pts · 2 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (21) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen: Qwen3 8B - Pricing, Benchmarks & Providers | Switchyswitchy.build—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Review: Specs, Pricing & Benchmarks | llmdb.appllmdb.app—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 Deep Dive: Comprehensive Analysis of Alibaba’s Open-Source LLM Family and Its Variants – FTS AI & Roboticsflechetechstream.com2026-07-282026-10-07exa
Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion 8B vs Qwen3-8B: Diffusion vs AR | LLMReferencellmreference.com2026-05-232026-10-07exa
Qwen3: The Hybrid Reasoning Model That Changes What | by RS Vino | May, 2026 | Mediummedium.com2026-05-022026-10-07exa
Qwen3.5 9B vs Qwen3 8B on RTX 4060: When Architectural Progress Meets Consumer Hardware Constraints — A Local Python Coding Benchmarkexa.ai2026-04-102026-10-07exa
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
Benchmarking Qwen3 against frontier models: A deep dive for tech analysts - EONSReonsr.com2026-01-062026-10-07exa
Tool-Calling Agents on Laptop Intel Arc GPUs: Dockerizing Qwen3-8B with Ipex-LLMyourlabs.org2025-11-132026-10-07hn
Qwen3-VL-4B and 8B runs locally on NPU, GPU, and CPU with one SDKnexa.ai2025-10-142026-10-07hn
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
Ollama and Bifrost –> Qwen3 in Claude Codenews.ycombinator.com2025-09-042026-10-07hn
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-102026-10-07hn
Qwen3-30B-A3B Deep Dive: How 128 Experts Achieve Frontier Performance at 10% Active Parameters | Pavel Nasovich's Blogforcewake.me2025-08-072026-10-07exa
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

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