Qwen3 8B (Reasoning)
AI model by Alibaba. Real-time pricing and benchmark data.
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Editorial Analysis
Profile. Qwen3 8B (Reasoning) is a budget-tier option from Alibaba at $2.10/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on Coding Index (9.0) and Intelligence Index (8.3) — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.
Latency. On latency, Qwen3 8B (Reasoning) reports 38 tok/s output speed and 3810ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is on the slower end; for real-time chat consider pairing with a streaming front-end or routing latency-sensitive requests to a faster model.
Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Qwen3 8B (Reasoning) costs $0.39 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.
Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-08-24.
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| Model | Input | Output | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3 8B (Reasoning)Current | $0.18 | $2.10 | 38 tok/s |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | $0.40 | $2.00 | 106 tok/s |
| Grok Build 0.1 0616 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 55 tok/s |
| GPT-5 mini (high) | $0.25 | $2.00 | 83 tok/s |
| Mistral Medium 3 | $0.40 | $2.00 | 54 tok/s |
| GLM-4.6 (Reasoning) | $0.55 | $2.20 | 54 tok/s |