# Qwen3 8B — price & specs

Source: https://modelbank.ai/models/qwen3-8b · updated 2026-11-12 · ModelBank

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Qwen (Alibaba) |
| Input price | $0.12 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0.46 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 8,192 tokens |
| Input modalities | text |
| Reasoning / tool use | yes / yes |
| Intelligence / coding index | 7.3 / 9 |
| Released | 2025-04-28 |
| Retirement date | 2026-10-09 |

## About

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,...

## Price history

- 2026-09-24: $0.12 in / $0.46 out

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