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Qwen3 8B

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Qwen·qwen/qwen3-8b

Qwen3 8B listed OpenRouter input price is $0.117 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.455 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen3 8B has a published context limit of 131K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen3 8B has 1 published OpenRouter serving endpoint, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen3 8B weight access is open weights, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
Not scored · 0% support · score interval not available
Market Gravity
26.7Decreased by 0.1
Secondary market signal
Input
$0.117
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.455
per 1M tokens
Context
131K
tokens
Providers
1
endpoint
Gateway spend
latest · Vercel share

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes
ProviderInputOutputContextQuantUptime
Alibaba$0.117$0.455131K100.0%

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Exact repository identity

Provider economics and telemetry published by the Hugging Face Router. These are operational signals, not benchmark results.

ProviderInputOutputContextTTFTThroughputFeatures
nscale
live
$0.07$0.1841K675 ms132.0 tok/stools
featherless-ai
live

Reported evaluation leads (1)

Not independent measurement

Structured rows reported in this exact model repository at the pinned revision below. They are the publisher talking about itself: never measured evidence, never a score input on their own. They remain quarantined until dataset revision, harness, configuration and identity pass ModelCap’s independent admission review.

Dataset / taskMetricValueRevisionProvenance
LiquidAI/ifstruct-v1.0
ifstruct_v1
79.75
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
Not scored · placement uncalibrated
Public rank basis
Not scored (abstained)
Index support
0.0% · not applicable
Index interval
Not available
Rank posterior
Not available
Top 5 / Top 10 probability
Not available / Not available
Posterior as of
Snapshot timestamp unavailable
Evidence as of
No admitted evaluation publication timestamp
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · qwen/qwen/qwen3-8b · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata Qwen/Qwen3-8B@b968826d9c46dd6066d109eabc6255188de91218 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
0
Architecture fallback
abstained · 0% coverage · 0 anchors
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)
11.3
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
20.3
Open reach (HF downloads)
98.0
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
70.2
Freshness
14.3
  • · OpenRouter popularity #168
  • · 1 live provider
  • · HF 30d downloads 12672325
  • · Catalogue: context 131072, reasoning, tools
  • · First seen 2025-04-28

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
30.7
14.6–46.7 uncertainty interval
Excluded from rank
Confidence
75%
Training support
209 models · 120 lineages
Out-of-domain check
in domain
Feature coverage
100%
Lineage-held-out error
10.0 MAE

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

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
78.5
strong · 80% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
100.0
Access & legal clarity
100.0
Deployability
95.0
Evaluation provenance
0.0

Missing: evaluationProvenance.admitted-evaluation-observations, evaluationProvenance.capability-family-breadth, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-source-diversity, evaluationProvenance.identity-and-source-confidence, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.

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

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
26.7
OpenRouter weekly popularity
#168 of 322

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%
11.3

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
20.3

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

Open reach15%
98.0

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

Freshness5%
14.3

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

Specification

Context window
131K tokens
Max output
8K tokens
Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
28 Apr 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2025-03-31

Capabilities

  • Supported: Reasoning
  • Supported: Tool use
  • Not supported: Structured output
  • 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
b968826d9c46
Parameters
8.2B
Architecture
Qwen3ForCausalLM
Model type
qwen3
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
12.7M
Downloads (all time)
124.3M
Likes
2K
Repository
Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Repository updated
26 Jul 2025, 03:49 UTC
Base lineage
Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base

Benchmark leaderboards featuring Qwen3 8B

All leaderboards
Public benchmark boards on which Qwen3 8B has a published result
LeaderboardScoreSource rankConfigurationPublished
BFCL V4 function-calling leaderboardUC Berkeley (Gorilla)42.6#30 of 83Function calling12 Apr 2026

Qwen3 8B: common questions

How does Qwen3 8B rank among AI models?

Qwen3 8B has no public ModelCap Index position as of 22 September 2026: the snapshot lacks enough matched benchmark evidence, or the identity match is unresolved. Its catalogue facts (price, context, providers) are shown without a rank.

How much does Qwen3 8B cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen3 8B is listed at $0.117 per 1M input tokens and $0.455 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.462 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.

What is the context window of Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B has a published context window of 131K tokens (131,072) and a maximum output of 8K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.

Is Qwen3 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 Qwen/Qwen3-8B on Hugging Face.

Which API providers serve Qwen3 8B?

One provider serves Qwen3 8B through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: Alibaba. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.

Which benchmarks has Qwen3 8B been evaluated on?

Qwen3 8B has published results on 1 public board tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: BFCL V4 42.6 (#30 of 83). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.

When was Qwen3 8B released?

Qwen3 8B first appeared in the catalogue on 28 Apr 2025, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-31. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.