Qwen3-8B
Sovereignty and hosting
This model is catalogued for reference. It is not hosted on LLM EU yet, and no first-party endpoint serves it here. Requests to it go to the provider directly, under that provider's own terms.
Summary
Qwen3-8B is a dense text model that supports both a thinking and a non-thinking mode in one checkpoint. It handles 32,768 tokens natively, and the model card states that YaRN scaling extends it to 131,072 tokens. It is published under Apache-2.0 and remains one of the most downloaded open text models in its size class.
Specifications
- Provider
- Alibaba Qwen (CN)
- Context window
- 33k
- Parameters
- 8.19B
- Modalities
- text
- License
- apache-2.0 · licence
- Open weights
- yes
- Release date
- 27 Apr 2025
- Tasks
- cheap, reasoning, multilingual-support, summarization
Languages
Strong: en, zh
Adequate: de, fr, es, it, pt, ru, ja, ko, ar, nl, pl, tr, vi, hi
Languages
Strong
- en
- zh
Adequate
- de
- fr
- es
- it
- pt
- ru
- ja
- ko
- ar
- nl
- pl
- tr
- vi
- hi
Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. — a language is listed as strong only where a source claims it; the card links the evidence where one exists.
When to use it
Strengths
- hybrid thinking and non-thinking modes
- Apache-2.0 licence
- runs on a single mid-range GPU
Limits
- 32,768-token native context; longer inputs need YaRN configuration
- behind Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8 releases on reasoning
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU