Qwen3 8B

Name: Qwen3 8B
Author: Alibaba (Ollama)

Scores reviewed 2026-06-16

Alibaba (Ollama)

LMFinder id: ollama/qwen3-8b

Context: 32K
Price per 1M: Free
Tooling: 3/5
Deploy: Local (self-hosted)

Best for

Writing and editing code
Complex reasoning and analysis
Private, offline use on your own hardware

Skip if

You want a managed, zero-setup API

Capability scores

Tool calling3/5

Tooling (1-5): how reliably the model calls tools and follows multi-step instructions. Editorial score from LMFinder, not a benchmark.

Multi-step reasoning3/5

Specifications

Context window: 32K tokens
VRAM: ~8GB
License: apache-2.0
Pricing: Free to run · needs ~8GB GPU
Deployment: Local (self-hosted)
Docs: Model docs ↗

Our take

Qwen3 8B from Alibaba (Ollama) offers a 32K-token context window and is well-suited to coding. It runs on your own hardware, so there is no per-token cost and your data stays private (plan for roughly 8GB of VRAM).

Watch for the trade-offs: there is no managed API — you run and maintain it yourself.

Compare to

Gemma 3 27B

Google (Ollama)

128K context · Free to run · needs ~16GB GPU

Llama 3.1 70B

Meta (Ollama)

128K context · Free to run · needs ~40GB GPU

Mistral Nemo 12B

Mistral (Ollama)

128K context · Free to run · needs ~8GB GPU

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