Models/Qwen/Qwen3 8B

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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Identity

131,072Context in
8,192Context out
2025-04-28 (OpenRouter created 1745876632)Released
OpenWeights
Canonical name
Qwen3 8B
Aliases
qwen/qwen3-8b, Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
qwen/qwen3-8b
Hugging Face
Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Modalities
text
Open weights Not on Continuum host list Open

Context window on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: 131,072 tokens.

Max completion tokens on that row: 8,192.

Input / output on that row: $0.12 / $0.46 per 1M tokens.

Architecture fields: text->text · Qwen3 · qwen3.

Hugging Face id on that row: Qwen/Qwen3-8B.

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Should I use this for coding agents

Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue.

When you want the 2025-04-28 catalog SKU, not a later rename.

No independent row for this SKU

No independent board lists this exact SKU as of 2026-08-19.

Closest benchmarked sibling: Qwen3.8 Max, 57% ±3% Pass@1 at xhigh on the DeepSWE official board. That is a score for the sibling, not for this SKU.

Boards checked: DeepSWE official (2026-08-13), Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, vals.ai hero index. Every card that does carry a row is on the coding leaderboard.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysis

No Intelligence Index integer fetched for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Index

We did not open a vals.ai card for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • When you need a Continuum-hosted SKU from this lab, use the hosted card on this hub instead of this catalog row.
  • $0.12 in / $0.46 out per 1M on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row. Context 131,072 in / 8,192 out.
  • Need a denser published sibling on this hub? Qwen3.8 Max is the card already on the cluster.
  • When the job needs a published DeepSWE, Artificial Analysis, or vals.ai chip: this page does not invent one. Those boards did not list this exact SKU on 2026-08-19.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.

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Artifact and Hugging Face downloads

Artifact

SPDX / license
apache-2.0
Total params
HF safetensors.total: 8,190,735,360 stored tensors
Native precision
HF tensors BF16
Repo size
HF API usedStorage 45,450,222,438 bytes
HF created
2025-04-27T03:42:21.000Z
Official HF repo
Qwen/Qwen3-8B
HF downloads
15,796,910
HF likes
1,305

Official weights id on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: Qwen/Qwen3-8B. Community GGUF is a quant, not a second Continuum card.

Official weights

This is the model repo, not Download for Mac. Downloads and likes from the Hugging Face API on 2026-08-19.

Hub file tree

Safetensor shards
5
Shard bytes
16,381,516,776 bytes
Other file bytes
15,944,490 bytes
Tree file count
15
Hub usedStorage
45,450,222,438 bytes

usedStorage and the sum of .safetensors sizes can differ (LFS pointers, non-shard files, duplicate copies). Cited separately. Source: recursive tree API, 2026-08-19.

PathBytes
model-00001-of-00005.safetensors3,996,250,744
model-00002-of-00005.safetensors3,993,160,032
model-00003-of-00005.safetensors3,959,604,768
model-00004-of-00005.safetensors3,187,841,392
model-00005-of-00005.safetensors1,244,659,840
tokenizer.json11,422,654
vocab.json2,776,833
merges.txt1,671,853
model.safetensors.index.json32,878
README.md16,660
LICENSE11,343
tokenizer_config.json9,732
.gitattributes1,570
config.json728
generation_config.json239

All 15 files the tree API returned are listed: every one of the 5 safetensor shards plus 10 other files. Files tab: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B/tree/main.

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Continuum serving

OpenRouter slug qwen/qwen3-8b on the 2026-08-19 catalog.

First party: https://qwen.ai/.

Not on the Continuum host list fetched 2026-08-19.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

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Economics

OpenRouter 2026-08-19: $0.12 in / $0.46 out per 1M tokens. Context 131,072 in / 8,192 out.

No separate internal-reasoning price on that row.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Qwen3 8B.
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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OpenRouter id qwen/qwen3-8b; context 131072; created 1745876632; $0.12 / $0.46 per 1MOpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
OpenRouter id qwen/qwen3-8b, context 131,072OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
HF downloads 15,796,910Hugging Face API Qwen/Qwen3-8B2026-08-19
HF safetensors.total: 8,190,735,360 stored tensors; HF API usedStorage 45,450,222,438 bytes; created 2025-04-27T03:42:21.000Z; HF tensors BF16Hugging Face API Qwen/Qwen3-8B2026-08-19
5 safetensor shards; shard bytes 16,381,516,776; tree files 15Hugging Face tree API Qwen/Qwen3-8B2026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

Continue through Qwen's model family with Qwen3.8 27B.

FAQ

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

No Continuum hosted id is verified for this model, so this page does not invent a curl target. Use the first-party API or the OpenRouter slug qwen/qwen3-8b.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.