Qwen3 8B pricing.
Prices checked
Qwen3 8B costs $0.18 in and $0.70 out per million tokens from Alibaba Cloud; the cheapest price is $0.06 at SiliconFlow, checked .
Alibaba Cloud's own price
Alibaba Cloud
$0.18 in · $0.70 out
65% below the typical price of the 392 text models we track.
Cheapest price
SiliconFlow
$0.06 in · $0.06 out
81% less than Alibaba Cloud, and the provider says why.
Every provider selling Qwen3 8B
- 1
$0.06 in · $0.06 out
$0.06/M tokens - 2
$0.04 in · $0.14 out · 128k context here
$0.06/M tokens - 3
$0.07 in · $0.18 out · 41k context here
$0.10/M tokens - 4
$0.07 in · $0.18 out · 41k context here
$0.10/M tokens - 5
$0.08 in · $0.25 out · 41k context here
$0.12/M tokens - 6
$0.07 in · $0.29 out
$0.13/M tokens - 7
$0.20 in · $0.20 out · 41k context here
$0.20/M tokens - 8
Thinking Machines
Costs more$0.20 in · $0.60 out · 33k context here
$0.30/M tokens - 9
$0.18 in · $0.70 out
$0.31/M tokens - 10
$0.47 in · $0.47 out · 41k context here
$0.47/M tokens - 11
$0.47 in · $0.47 out · 41k context here
$0.47/M tokens
Not ranked
Below the maker's own price with nothing published to account for it, from a catalog we could not read reliably, or a free tier, which is a limit rather than a price. Why
given away with limits
free$0.12 in · $0.46 out · 33k context here
$0.20/M tokens
What it costs for your work
A month at Alibaba Cloud's own price
A month at SiliconFlow, the cheapest
What you save
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Run it yourself
On a server by the month
Alibaba Cloud publishes the weights, so you can run Qwen3 8B on a server you rent by the month. It needs about 7.6 GB of RAM on a CPU, and the cheapest plan we track with that much and a disk included is Leaseweb VPS 2 at $9.04 a month, streaming about 2.9–5.8 tok/s. Every plan that fits
On a GPU by the hour
The RTX A5000 holds Qwen3 8B in 24 GB of memory against the 7.6 GB the weights, the context and the runtime need. The cheapest one we track is RunPod's RTX A5000 · Community Cloud at $0.16/GPU-hr, which is $116.80 for the 730 hours in a month, checked 31 Oct. Every GPU price
How we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below Alibaba Cloud's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Runs it themselves
- The provider runs the open weights on hardware of its own, so the price is its own rather than a resale.
- Lower precision
- The open weights, served at a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
- Resells
- The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Regional price
- A price list for one region, lower than the international one. A region, not a deal.
- Costs more
- Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Free tier
- Given away inside a quota. A limit is not a price, so it is never called cheapest.
- Not ranked
- Below the maker's price on a closed model with nothing to account for it, or from a catalog we could not read reliably. Listed, and never a pick.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what Qwen3 8B does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Qwen3 8B's cheapest price, $0.06 per M tokens.
Frequently asked
- Who sells Qwen3 8B cheapest?
- SiliconFlow, at $0.06 in and $0.06 out per million tokens, checked 31 Oct 2026. The provider runs the open weights on hardware of its own, so the price is its own rather than a resale.
- Is Qwen3 8B open weights?
- Yes. Alibaba Cloud publishes the weights, so anyone may host Qwen3 8B, which is why 12 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Qwen3 8B hold?
- 131,072 tokens in one call, which is about 131k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Qwen3 8B compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.31 per million tokens, Alibaba Cloud's own price is 65% below the typical $0.88 across the 392 text models we track.
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