Qwen3 8B is Alibaba's language model with a 131K context window and up to 20K output tokens, available from 6 providers, starting at $0.035 / 1M input and $0.138 / 1M output. An 8B-parameter dense LLM from the Qwen3 series with strong reasoning capabilities and support for hybrid thinking and non-thinking inference modes.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-8b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Max Output20K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters8B
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HuggingFace Downloads (30d)8,692,944
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)50,107,992
Release Date · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-8b
$0.18$0.7N/A$0.09$0.35
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-8b
$0.2$0.2N/A
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
nscale:Qwen/Qwen3-8B
$0.07$0.18N/A
LlamaGate
llamagate/qwen3-8b
$0.04$0.14N/A
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-8b-fp8
$0.035$0.138N/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-8b
$0.05$0.4$0.05

Cost Calculator

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Voyage 4 NanoAvailable
Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B33K$0.010Available
Qwen3 Embedding 4B41K$0.020Available
Qwen3 Embedding 8B41K$0.020Available
Qwen3 8B131K$0.035$0.138Current
Qwen3 14B132K$0.060$0.200Available
Qwen3 32B131K$0.050$0.100Available
Qwen3 4B Instruct262K$0.010$0.030Available
KwaiPilot KAT 32B Dev131K$0.900$0.900Available
Qwen3 0.6B41K$0.100$0.100Available
Qwen3 1.7B131K$0.100$0.100Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-8b
alibaba-qwen3-8b
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-8b
huggingface-reasoning-qwen3-8b
llamagate/qwen3-8b
novita/qwen/qwen3-8b-fp8
qwen/qwen3-8b
qwen/qwen3-8b-fp8
qwen3-8b
qwen3-8b-instruct
qwen3-8b-instruct-reasoning