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Qwen3-32B

Dense 32B flagship of the Qwen3 family with hybrid thinking modes

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About

Qwen3-32B is the largest dense model from the April 29, 2025 Qwen3 launch, and it became one of the most widely deployed open models of 2025. Like the rest of the family it switches between thinking and non-thinking modes in a single model, supports 128K context (32K native, extendable), and ships under Apache 2.0. The team reports reasoning and coding performance competitive with much larger models, and the community backed that up by making it a default fine-tuning base and a popular self-hosted assistant. It runs on a single high-memory GPU when quantized, and hosted inference is available from Alibaba Cloud, Cerebras, and others. Newer Qwen releases have since pushed past it, but it remains a dependable workhorse.

Specs

Context window

128,000 tokens (32K native, extendable)

Pricing

Free — open weights (Apache 2.0)

Free quota

N/A — self-hosted

API access

Weights on Hugging Face, ModelScope, and Kaggle; hosted APIs via Alibaba Cloud, Cerebras, and others

Weights

Open weights

Released

April 29, 2025

Benchmarks

Team-reported: strong reasoning and coding for its size; competitive with larger proprietary models on several benchmarks (team-reported)

Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.

Use cases

Local AI assistantsReasoning-heavy chatbotsCode assistanceFine-tuning base

Trust score — 9/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Released 2025-04-29 as part of Qwen3 launch, per Alibaba and press; Apache 2.0 confirmed; Dense 32B, hybrid thinking modes, 128K context (team specs); Very widely deployed and mirrored; strong third-party ecosystem (Cerebras, vLLM docs).

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