Model comparison

Qwen3 32B vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 8B costs 4.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 32B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 11 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 32B

Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #166 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B

Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 32B scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen3 32B leads 43.7 to 37.8.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 35.4% for Qwen3 32B and 22.6% for Qwen3 8B.
Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.

Side by side

Qwen3 32B and Qwen3 8B specifications
	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
Provider	Alibaba (Qwen)	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	38.8	33.3
Released	2025-04	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	131K	131K
Max output	16K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.70	$0.18
Output $ / M tokens	$2.80	$0.70
Results tracked	26	11

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
SciCode	35.4%	22.6%
Aider Polyglot	40%	—
LMArena Coding	1358	—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58), Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	48.7%	42.6%

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
CritPt	0.3%	0%
Chess Puzzles	5%	5%
DTBench	67.5%	59.7%
LMCA	17.3%	8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index	138.51	136.17
Kagi LLM Benchmark	54.9%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1335	—

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	66.9%	56.1%
LMArena Math	1399	—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond	65.7%	56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	5.9%	4.8%
LMArena Expert	1362	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162), Qwen3 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English	1317	—
LMArena Chinese	1357	—
LMArena German	1341	—
LMArena Russian	1311	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174), Qwen3 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following	1305	—

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench	74.2%	62.1%
LMArena Longer Query	1327	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158), Qwen3 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Qwen3 32B	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Text	1340	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1297	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1331	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3 32B better than Qwen3 8B?

Which is cheaper, Qwen3 32B or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Qwen3 32B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 131K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3 32B and Qwen3 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 32B has 26 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.