Qwen3 8B

by Alibaba

Qwen3 8B is the compact dense model of Alibaba's April 2025 Qwen3 release. It shares the family's hybrid design: a thinking mode that reasons step by step through math, code and logic, and a non-thinking mode for fast direct replies, with tool calling available in both. Trained on data spanning more than a hundred languages and dialects, it covers classification, extraction, chat and short agent loops where a larger model would be overkill. It is released under Apache 2.0 and suits high-volume workloads that want optional reasoning at small-model cost and latency.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
33K
Max output
Input price
$0.45 /1M$0.22 cache read
Output price
$0.45 /1M
  • EU residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Qwen3 8B runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutputCache read
EUNo$0.45$0.45$0.22

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Qwen3 8B has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Greenference European Union🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Intelligence Index7.3
Coding Index9.0
Math Index19.0
Reasoning & knowledge
MMLU-Pro
74%
GPQA Diamond
59%
Humanity's Last Exam
4%
Long-context reasoning
0%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
41%
SciCode
28%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
2%
τ²-Bench Telecom
28%
Math & instruction following
AIME 2025
19%
IFBench
33%

Get started

Call Qwen3 8B through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.

Qwen3 8B is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "greenference/qwen3-8b",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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