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Qwen3.8-27B

Qwen3.8-27B is an open-weight language model from Alibaba Qwen, released on August 14, 2026.

Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
August 14, 2026
Total parameters
27B
Architecture
Dense
Context window
256K
Input
Text, image, video
License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
55.6 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
Checked on

Qwen3.8-27B is a dense model with 27B parameters. Alibaba Qwen lists a context window of 262,144 tokens natively, extensible to about 1M. The model accepts text, image and video input. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.

The official weights on Hugging Face take about 55.6 GB. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
27B
Context window, tokens
262.14K
License type
Apache 2.0
License conditions
Apache 2.0, with no user or revenue limits.
Official quantized or alternative versions
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
License text
huggingface.co
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/raw/main/README.md
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json
GitHub filehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.5/main/README.md (news: 2026-08-14)
alibabacloud.com announcementhttps://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-unveils-qwen3-8-27b-and-releases-weights-of-qwen3-8-flagship-model_603463

Questions

What license does Qwen3.8-27B use?
The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use with no user or revenue limits.
How much memory does Qwen3.8-27B need?
The official weights take about 55.6 GB. Qwen also publishes an FP8 version, which needs less; the memory calculator checks which setups fit.
How many parameters does Qwen3.8-27B have?
Qwen3.8-27B is a dense model with 27B parameters.
What input does Qwen3.8-27B accept?
Text, image and video input, with a context window of 262,144 tokens natively, extensible to about 1M.

Sources

Every figure comes from the developer’s model card, license text and official announcements, and from the model’s Hugging Face repository metadata. Each model page lists its sources and the date they were checked; the register is rechecked every week.

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