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# Qwen: Qwen3 8B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3 8B: $0.117/M in, $0.455/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3 8B

Qwen · released 2025-04-28

 $0.202 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+43.5** higher and costs **48% less** ($0.105/M against $0.202/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[Llama 4 Scout](/models/meta-llama__llama-4-scout) is cheaper still (26% less) but drops no extended reasoning.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.117 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.455 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 8.3 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 9 |
| Agentic | 1.6 |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 131K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 8K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between "thinking" mode for math,...