Model profile
Alibaba

Qwen3 8B (Non-reasoning)

Qwen3 8B (Non-reasoning) is a budget text-first model from Alibaba with a fast runtime profile, unknown context posture, and the clearest fit around coding / agent workflows.

Best for: Coding / Agent workflowsFast latencyUnknown contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
10.6

Benchmark blend

Coding
0.202

Dev workflow signal

Context
N/A

Unknown

Input Price
$0.18

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
42

Qwen3 8B (Non-reasoning) currently reads as a budget text-first option with unknown context and a fast runtime profile.

Overall profile
Use-case specific
Best for
Coding / Agent workflows
Latency tier
Fast
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouter

Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
10.6
11

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Limited
Speed
86 tok/s
73

TTFT 0.92s

Competitive
Context
N/A
34

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Limited
Price
$0.18
86

$0.70 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

Qwen3 8B (Non-reasoning) in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Use-case specificCoding score 40Math score 36

The Qwen3 8B (Non-reasoning) AI model by Alibaba.

Identity

Alibaba text-first profile

Positioning

Coding / Agent workflows with unknown context and fast runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths
  • Latency and throughput look responsive enough for interactive loops.

Tradeoffs
  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.

Best fit
  • Focused chat, retrieval-augmented flows, and narrower production tasks.

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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

General intelligence

Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.

Intelligence Index
10.6
MMLU Pro
64.3%
GPQA
45.2%
Coding

Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.

LiveCodeBench
0.202

Extra benchmark cuts are not available for this category yet.

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
N/A
Vision
Text-first
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.18
Output
per 1M output tokens
$0.70
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
N/A

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.