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Qwen: Qwen3 8B

Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between "thinking" mode for math,...

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Why it stands out

Combines tool use with reasoning — a strong baseline for agentic and multi-step workflows.
$0.05/M input makes it practical for always-on agents, batch processing, or high-volume classification.

What to watch

Text-only input — image or audio workflows require a separate model in the pipeline.
41K context window is shorter than the longest-context frontier models available today.
No benchmark score currently tracked — evaluate using task-specific testing alongside pricing and capability data.

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Qwen: Qwen3 8B entered the tracked catalog

April 28, 2025

Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between "thinking" mode for math, coding, and logical inference, and "non-thinking" mode for general conversation. The model is fine-tuned for instruction-following, agent integration, creative writing, and multilingual use across 100+ languages and dialects. It natively supports a 32K token context window and can extend to 131K tokens with YaRN scaling.

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LaunchApr 28

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