Question 1

What is Qwen3 8B?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 8B is a model from Qwen, released on Apr 29, 2025. Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. $0.117 per million input tokens, $0.455 per million output tokens. 131,072 token context window, maximum output of 8,192 tokens. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

Question 2

How much does Qwen3 8B cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.12 per 1M tokens on every provider, and output starts at $0.45 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 3 providers, it costs $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.46 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve Qwen3 8B on Respan?

Accepted Answer

3 providers serve Qwen3 8B: OpenRouter, Featherless, and Inference.net.

Question 4

What is Qwen3 8B's context window?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 8B accepts up to 131K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Qwen3 8B with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "qwen3-8b". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Qwen3 8B?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 51 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 1.9 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
OpenRouter`openrouter/qwen/qwen3-8b`	131K	$0.12/M	$0.45/M
Featherless`featherless_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-8B`	33K	$0.12/M	$0.46/M
Inference.net`inference_net/qwen3-8b`	131K	$0.12/M	$0.46/M

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