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Qwen3 8

Best configuration ranks #38 of 610 on the BenchLeader Index at 63.9 ±3.3 (max reasoning effort). Last measured 8 Sept 2026. Released 2 Aug 2026.

Blended price
$2.67/M
$1.78 in · $5.33 out
Output speed
39 tok/s
First answer
53 s
first token 1.78 s
Context
1M
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index64
  2. Reasoning68
  3. Coding72
  4. Agents & tools56
  5. Knowledge62
  6. Human preference68
  7. Multimodal67
  8. Long context66
  9. Composite71

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Default” means the publisher did not say which setting was used.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
xhigh58.0#13437 tok/s1.78 sKnowledge 56 · Maths 65 · Reasoning 67
maxbest63.9#3839 tok/s53 s$0.0023Agents & tools 56 · Coding 72 · Composite 71 · Human preference 68 · Knowledge 62 · Long context 66 · Multimodal 67 · Reasoning 68
default37 tok/s1.78 sCoding 62 · Maths 62

Benchmark results

One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
GPQA Diamond92.7%#20Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LMArena Hard Prompts1502#22LMArena
LiveBench Reasoningnot in index88.2%#16LiveBench
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index92.7%#31Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index43.0%#33Artificial Analysis
GPQA Diamond (Vals)not in index93.7%#6Vals AI

Coding

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
SciCode52.9%#46SciCode
LMArena Coding1520#30LMArena
LMArena WebDev1685#4LMArena
LiveBench Codingnot in index72.9%#41LiveBench
SciCode (AA)not in index53.2%#49Artificial Analysis
LiveCodeBench87.8%#10Vals AI
IOI73.0%#3Vals AI
SWE-bench (Vals)not in index85.6%#17Vals AI

Agents & tools

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
LMArena Agent3.9#14LMArena
LiveBench Agentic Codingnot in index64.7%#4LiveBench
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)67.4%#27Vals AI

Maths

Knowledge

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
SimpleQA Verified47.3%#28Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench Data Analysisnot in index78.4%#16LiveBench
AA-Omniscience3.4#79Artificial Analysis
MMLU-Pro88.6%#18Vals AI
LegalBench83.6%#46Vals AI
CorpFin65.8%#26Vals AI
TaxEval75.5%#17Vals AI

Instruction following

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
LiveBench Languagenot in index79.7%#25LiveBench

Human preference

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
LMArena Text1480#22LMArena

Multimodal

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
LMArena Vision1313#6LMArena
MMMU-Pro82.3%#21Artificial Analysis

Long context

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
AA-LCR78.3%#77Artificial Analysis

Composite

BenchmarkxhighmaxdefaultSourceTrend
Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in index156.6#14Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench78.5%#10LiveBench
AA Intelligence Index40.3#33Artificial Analysis
Vals Indexnot in index51.8#26Vals AI

Where it wins

Benchmarks where this configuration ranks in the top five of every configuration measured.

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Alibaba Cloud Int.37 tok/s1.78 s$2.00$6.001M

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.222 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0023$0.00181.0 min
Summarise a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.025$0.0111.1 min
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.019$0.0121.5 min
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.128$0.0582.6 min
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0046$0.002358.3 s

See also

Data as of 9 Sept 2026. Compare these configurations.