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Qwen3-32B

Alibaba's mid-size Qwen3, sweet spot for self-hosting at modest hardware budgets.

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Quick facts

Released
Apr 2025
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
Pricing not published
License
Apache-2.0

About Qwen3-32B

Qwen3-32B is the size sweet spot for self-hosting: fits on 2× 24GB GPUs after quantization, clears the quality bar for production use, and inherits the Qwen3 line's strong multilingual training.

For teams wanting open-weight quality without committing to the cost of running 70B-class models, Qwen3-32B has become the de facto default in Chinese, multilingual, and cost-sensitive English deployments.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Alibaba's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval
,
Python coding pass@1
MMLU
,
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

  • Apache-2.0
  • Fits modest hardware budgets

Tracked weaknesses

  • Trails 72B on hardest tasks

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Alibaba.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Qwen3-32B. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Qwen3-32B from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Alibaba SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "qwen-3-32b",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Best for

Tasks where Qwen3-32B ranks among LLMDex's top picks.

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Frequently asked

  • How much does Qwen3-32B cost?
    Alibaba has not published per-token API pricing for Qwen3-32B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
  • What is Qwen3-32B's context window?
    Qwen3-32B supports a context window of 128K tokens.
  • Is Qwen3-32B open source?
    Qwen3-32B ships with open weights under the Apache-2.0 license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
  • When was Qwen3-32B released?
    Qwen3-32B was released on Apr 29, 2025 by Alibaba.
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