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ZwZ 8B

Official publisher releaseOpen weights2.5d #218 → #221

InclusionAI·#221 of 361 on the current board

ZwZ 8B is a language model from InclusionAI. It ranks #221 of 361 on ModelCap's current board, with an Index score of 33.6, carried over from the model it is built on. Its score range of 13.4–53.8 spans positions #104–#323. Its weights are openly downloadable.

Figures as of 27 Oct 2026, 22:54 UTC · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
33.6#221
Carried over from the model it is built on · range 13.4–53.8
Market Gravity
5.4Decreased by 0.1
Secondary market signal

OpenRouter endpoint status could not be refreshed. This model is not treated as currently served until a successful observation arrives.

Input
Self-hosted
weights only · no listed API price
Output
Self-hosted
weights only · no listed API price
Context
—
tokens
Providers
0
endpoints

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes

Current provider status is unavailable.

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
33.6
Carried over from the model it is built on
Current board
#221 of 361
Score range
13.4–53.8
Rank range
#104–#323
Technical details
Public rank basis
Modeled · lineage (lineage)
Evidence label
Modeled · lineage · finetune of qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct · finetune (100%)
Index support
8.0% · weak
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · inclusionai/inclusionAI/ZwZ-8B · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata inclusionAI/ZwZ-8B@894243f5453519699849a2ef0afae92a18637521 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
0
Qualified Index evidence point
33.6
Verified lineage
qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct · minus 1.2 ( finetune)
How this position was produced · fused launch placement

No general-family board lists this model yet. Its point estimate is the precision-weighted mean of every channel that spoke for it; each channel’s share is the weight it carried. Independent measurements replace this placement as boards list the model.

Fused estimate
33.6 ± 15.8
Independent share
0%
Shrink toward corpus
0.0
Optimism haircut
None applied
Method
precision-weighted-v1
Channels fused into this model’s launch placement
ChannelEstimateShare
Verified lineage · not independent
finetune of qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct · finetune
33.6 ± 15.8100%
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
—
Evidence status
No admitted measured evidence
General preference
—
Coding
—
Agents & tools
—
Reasoning
—
Evidence breadth
0%
Evidence coverage
0%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
—
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
—
Open reach (HF downloads)
23.2
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
15.0
Freshness
37.5
  • · HF 30d downloads 349
  • · Catalogue: modalities Text/Image
  • · First seen 2026-02-12

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Experimental capability estimate

Estimate policy
23.1
7.4–38.8 uncertainty interval
Excluded from rank
Confidence
71%
Training support
221 models · 129 lineages
Out-of-domain check
in domain
Feature coverage
71%
Lineage-held-out error
8.3 MAE

Experimental estimate. This layer predicts from admitted evidence and safe metadata only. It never enters ModelCap Score or rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
52.4
partial · 56% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
100.0
Access & legal clarity
100.0
Deployability
8.0
Evaluation provenance
0.0

Not yet published: a current serving provider, measured provider uptime, published provider pricing, declared context and output limits, admitted benchmark results, results across several capability areas, results from more than one source, a confident match to its benchmark entries, pinned evaluation dataset versions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
5.4
OpenRouter weekly popularity
Not listed

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

No matched Arena rating

This model is visible because it is available in the live catalogue, but it has no trustworthy community result yet. ModelCap does not infer a quality score from price, features, or market activity.

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
0.0

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
0.0

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
23.2

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
37.5

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Model ID
inclusionAI/ZwZ-8B
Declared output cap
Unknown

OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. OpenRouter metadata

Inputs
Text, Image
Outputs
Text
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
12 Feb 2026

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Not supported: Tool use
  • Not supported: Structured output
  • Not supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.

Access
Open weights
Licence
apache-2.0
Pinned revision
894243f54535
Parameters
8.8B
Architecture
Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Model type
qwen3_vl
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
349
Downloads (all time)
16K
Likes
50
Repository updated
13 Apr 2026, 11:43 UTC

Alternatives to ZwZ 8B, by the numbers

Ranked neighbours

Models within 3 places of #221 on the ModelCap Index.

Other ranked InclusionAI models

The same publisher's other current models with a public Index position.

ZwZ 8B: common questions

How does ZwZ 8B rank among AI models?

ZwZ 8B holds ModelCap Index position #221 of 361 ranked language models as of 27 October 2026, with an Index score of 33.6 (interval 13.4–53.8); evidence: modeled · lineage. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does ZwZ 8B cost per 1M tokens?

No live API price is listed for ZwZ 8B in the current snapshot as of 27 October 2026 because the latest endpoint refresh was unavailable. ModelCap shows a price only when a provider currently lists one.

Is ZwZ 8B open-weight?

Open weights (apache-2.0). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is inclusionAI/ZwZ-8B on Hugging Face.

Which benchmarks has ZwZ 8B been evaluated on?

ZwZ 8B's Index position rests on the evidence listed on this page; it has no result on the public boards ModelCap tracks as separate leaderboards as of 27 October 2026. The evidence panel names each source and its publication date.

When was ZwZ 8B released?

ZwZ 8B first appeared in the catalogue on 12 Feb 2026. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.