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Qwen3-8B (Thinking)
OPENAlibaba · Qwen3 family · released Apr 29, 2025
Popular small dense Gen-3 model; thinking mode gives outsized AIME/GPQA scores for its size.
ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
1323.0
Elo · rank #152
Parameters
8.2B
Active params
8.2B (dense)
Context
128K tokens
Architecture
Dense transformer, GQA + SwiGLU + QK-Norm
License
Apache 2.0
Languages
119+
API price (in/out)
$0.072 / $0.287
Modalities
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Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
best: GPT-5.2 · 100.0%
best: Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking) · 96.1%
best: Hunyuan-A13B · 78.3%
best: Qwen3.6-Plus · 93.3%
best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 3206
best: GPT-5.6 · 94.6%
best: Claude Sonnet 5 · 57.4%
best: MiniMax M3 · 83.0%
best: Gemma 4 26B A4B · 98.5%
best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%
best: GPT-5 · 99.4%
best: Qwen3.7-Max · 95.0%
best: Gemini 3.1 Pro · 92.6%
Run it locally
VRAM @ Q4
5.1 GB
VRAM @ FP16
16.4 GB
Fits on (Q4)
RTX 3060 12GBRTX 4070 Ti 16GBRTX 3090 24GBRTX 4090 24GBRTX 5090 32GBM4 Pro 48GBM3 Max 128GBM3 Ultra 512GBA100 80GBH100 80GBH200 141GBB200 192GB
Throughput data unavailable.
Quantizations
GGUF · AWQ · GPTQ · MLX
Qwen3 family
Elo progression across releases
Qwen3-14B (Non-Thinking)Apr 20251094.6Qwen3-14B (Thinking)Apr 20251396.5Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking)Apr 20251235.2Qwen3-235B-A22B (Thinking)Apr 20251536.2Qwen3-30B-A3B (Non-Thinking)Apr 20251101.1Qwen3-30B-A3B (Thinking)Apr 20251483.2Qwen3-32B (Non-Thinking)Apr 20251121.8Qwen3-32B (Thinking)Apr 20251509.2Qwen3-8B (Non-Thinking)Apr 2025922.1Qwen3-8B (Thinking)Apr 20251323.0Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Jul 20251591.0Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507Jul 20251842.4
API price $0.072/$0.287 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)