Qwen3 8B

alibaba/qwen3-8b

Maker: Alibaba (Qwen), China
Released: unknown
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-04
Family: qwen
Weights: open (apache-2.0)
Tasks: text.chat, text.reasoning, code
Cheapest offering: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope), about $0.00039 for a typical text.chat call

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Offerings

Provider	Model id at the provider	Status	Price per 1M tokens	Per-unit prices	Limits	Capabilities (level)
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope)	`qwen3-8b`	deprecated	Input: $0.18 Output: $0.7 Reasoning: $2.1 Since 2026-11-04 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 131,072 tokens Max output: 8,192 tokens	`input.text` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `reasoning` claimed

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Free on your own device. Memory is the weights, the KV cache at the context shown and about 10% overhead; a longer context needs more. GB are 10⁹ bytes. See local models.

Runtime	Model id in the runtime	Quantization	Needs	Context
llama.cpp	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M`	Q4_K_M	Memory: 6.86 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 6.86 GB Disk: 5.03 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
llama.cpp	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q5_K_M`	Q5_K_M	Memory: 7.77 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 7.77 GB Disk: 5.86 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
llama.cpp	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q6_K`	Q6_K	Memory: 8.73 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 8.73 GB Disk: 6.73 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
llama.cpp	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q8_0`	Q8_0	Memory: 10.91 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 10.91 GB Disk: 8.71 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
LM Studio	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF/Qwen3-8B-Q4_K_M.gguf`	Q4_K_M	Memory: 6.86 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 6.86 GB Disk: 5.03 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
LM Studio	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF/Qwen3-8B-Q5_K_M.gguf`	Q5_K_M	Memory: 7.77 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 7.77 GB Disk: 5.86 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
LM Studio	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF/Qwen3-8B-Q6_K.gguf`	Q6_K	Memory: 8.73 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 8.73 GB Disk: 6.73 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
LM Studio	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF/Qwen3-8B-Q8_0.gguf`	Q8_0	Memory: 10.91 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 10.91 GB Disk: 8.71 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
MLX	`mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit`	4bit	Memory: 6.4 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 6.4 GB Disk: 4.61 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
MLX	`mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-8bit`	8bit	Memory: 10.91 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 10.91 GB Disk: 8.71 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
Ollama	`qwen3:8b`	Q4_K_M	Memory: 7.11 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 7.11 GB Disk: 5.25 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
Ollama	`qwen3:8b-q8_0`	Q8_0	Memory: 11.18 GB at 8,192 tokens GPU memory: 11.18 GB Disk: 8.95 GB Parameters: 8.2B License: apache-2.0	Context: 40,960 tokens
WebLLM	`Qwen3-8B-q4f16_1-MLC`	q4f16_1	Memory: 5.98 GB at 4,096 tokens GPU memory: 5.98 GB Disk: 4.63 GB Parameters: 8.2B	Context: 4,096 tokens
WebLLM	`Qwen3-8B-q4f32_1-MLC`	q4f32_1	Memory: 7.19 GB at 4,096 tokens GPU memory: 7.19 GB Disk: 4.63 GB Parameters: 8.2B	Context: 4,096 tokens

Quality scores

Basis	Score (0–1)	Raw	Measured	Source
`epoch:gpqa_diamond`	0.589	0.5676	2026-08-27	Epoch AI, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech

Aliases

Other names the API accepts for this model.

alibaba-cn/qwen3-8b
qwen3-8b

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curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/models/alibaba/qwen3-8b' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Resolve text.chat on its providers

curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/resolve?task=text.chat&providers=dashscope' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Built from catalog version 2026-11-04.3 of 2026-11-04. Prices are list prices per 1M tokens unless marked otherwise; every score shows its source's notice (see Attributions).