Qwen3 8B
Summary
Qwen3 8B is an open-weight language model from Alibaba (Qwen), released on Apr 2025. It accepts text and generates text, with a 131K-token context window and up to 8K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.46 per million output tokens (OpenRouter), across 2 providers we track. It is scheduled for retirement on 9 Oct 2026.
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Alibaba (Qwen) |
|---|---|
| Release date | Apr 2025 [models.dev] |
| Status | Generally available [models.dev] |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | apache-2.0 [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 8.2B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 131K (131,072 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 8K tokens [models.dev] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Apr 2025 [models.dev] |
| Input | Text [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | Yes [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Retirement date | 9 Oct 2026 [OpenRouter] |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-8B [Hugging Face] |
Qwen3 8B API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen3-8b | $0.12 | $0.46 | – | 131K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio qwen3-8b | $0.18 | $0.70 | – | 131K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K) and can generate up to 8,192 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.
How much does the Qwen3 8B API cost?
Through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Qwen3 8B costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens. The lowest listed price is $0.12 input / $0.46 output through OpenRouter. Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Qwen3 8B open source?
Qwen3 8B is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as Qwen/Qwen3-8B under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Qwen3 8B released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3 8B on Apr 2025, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Qwen3 8B?
We track Qwen3 8B on 2 providers: OpenRouter, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.