# Qwen3 8B requirements

Updated: 2026-06-15

Qwen3 family, 8B params, released 2025-04.

- Q4_K_M: 5.03 GB on disk; ~6.5 GB to run at 4k context
- Q8_0: 8.71 GB
- Context: 32k
- Run: `ollama run qwen3:8b`
- Runs on 32 of 39 tracked devices

Sources: https://ollama.com/library/qwen3/tags, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF, https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/
More: https://localmodel.run/model/qwen3-8b