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Qwen

Multilingual and multimodal model releases with hosted access and a broad set of downloadable weights.

Official info checked3 selected releasesChecked 2026-08-31

Decision snapshot

Where this family fits

Suitable for
Multilingual and multimodal applications, coding agents, local or private inference, and teams selecting across dense and mixture-of-experts variants.
Access
Hosted API · Open weights · Local-capable
Capabilities
General & Reasoning · Coding · Vision & Multimodal · Agents & Tool Use
Weights
The Qwen3.8 repository publishes model weights and directs users to the license packaged with each checkpoint.
Decision boundary

Hardware needs differ sharply between the dense and MoE releases. Verify the exact checkpoint license, serving framework support, quantization, and context configuration.

Selected current releases

Exact names and model IDs

This is a maintained selection from official sources, not a complete catalog. Provider status labels are preserved instead of converted into a Richbay score.

ReleaseProvider statusAccess and modalityContextWeights / license
Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B ↗Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95BReleasedOpen weights + QwenCloudMultimodalSee checkpoint model cardOpen weights · check checkpoint license
Qwen3.8 27B ↗Qwen/Qwen3.8-27BReleasedOpen weights + QwenCloudMultimodal262,144 configured in official examplesOpen weights · check checkpoint license
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B ↗Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3BReleasedOpen weights + hosted APIMultimodalSee checkpoint model cardOpen weights · Apache 2.0

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