Qwen3-8B-Instruct
Qwen3-8B-Instruct is a released long context model with open-source and 128k context; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Qwen3
- Released
- 2025-08-15
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Instruction-tuned variant of Qwen3 8B, optimized for conversational and task-oriented use.
Qwen3-8B-Instruct is an open-source model in the Qwen3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Qwen3-8B-Instruct yet.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Qwen3-8B-Instruct?
Qwen3-8B-Instruct has a context window of 128k tokens.
When was Qwen3-8B-Instruct released?
Qwen3-8B-Instruct was released on 2025-08-15.