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Qwen3-8B

ECI#128
136
Alibaba
Apr. 28, 2025
Open weights

Qwen3-8B is an open-weights model from Alibaba, released April 28, 2025. It has an ECI score of 136 and ranks 128th of 249 tracked models. At the time of its release, it ranked 15th of 131 tracked models. At $0.117/Mtok for input tokens and $0.455/Mtok for output tokens, it is less expensive per token than similarly-capable models.

Input price$0.117 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.455 / 1M tokens
Parameters8.2e9
Training compute1.8e24 FLOP

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136133138136
Ranking#128#142#122#129
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8.815.5
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5.0%
n/a
Long context
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62.1%
66.7%
83.3%
50.0%
Mathematics
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56.1%
16.1%
59.2%
37.8%
Science
CritPtBest score 32.3%
0.0%
n/a
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0.0%
SciCodeBest score 62.0%
22.6%
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35.8%
GPQA DiamondBest score 95.8%
56.8%
56.1%
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