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Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B — Especificações

Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated

Desenvolvedor Alibaba
Tipo LLM (densa)
Modalidade Texto → Texto
Parâmetros 32B
Janela de contexto 128K
Licença Apache 2.0 (aberta)
Pesos abertos Sim
Lançado 2025
Preço da entrada $0.08 /1M
Preço da saída $0.28 /1M
Provedores de API Alibaba, OpenRouter, Ollama

Execute-o localmente

VRAM (4 bits) ~20 GB
GPU mínima RTX 4090 24 GB (Q4)

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What is Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is Alibaba’s largest dense Qwen3 — strong general reasoning and coding under a
fully permissive Apache 2.0 licence, with a 128K context. It runs comfortably at 4-bit on a
24 GB consumer GPU, needing about 20 GB, and costs $0.08 in / $0.28 out per million tokens
hosted.

This is the model that makes an RTX 4090 or 3090 worth owning for inference. At 20 GB it
leaves just enough headroom on a 24 GB card for a real context window, and being dense, its
quality per gigabyte is the best available in that bracket — mixture-of-experts models of
similar capability need far more memory resident even though they compute less per token. For
local coding assistants and private document work on a single consumer card, it is close to
the practical maximum. Apache 2.0 removes any licensing review, and the hosted price is low
enough to prototype against before buying hardware. Check your intended quantisation against
o Calculadora de VRAM — the margin on a
24 GB card is real but not generous.

Qwen3 32B pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Entrada (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.0800
Saída (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.280
Razão saída/entrada3.5×
Misturada (4:1 entrada:saída)$0.120 por 1 milhão de tokens

What Qwen3 32B costs per month

Gasto mensal real com uma proporção de entrada para saída de 4:1 — a razão efetivamente gerada por cargas de trabalho típicas de chat ou RAG.

Carga de trabalhoTokens/mêsCusto por mês
Projeto paralelo 1 milhão de tokens de entrada / 0,25 milhão de tokens de saída $0.15
Equipe pequena 20 milhões de tokens de entrada / 5 milhões de tokens de saída $3.00
Produção 200 milhões de tokens de entrada / 50 milhões de tokens de saída $30

Calcule seus próprios números na Calculadora de custos de API de IA.

Cheaper alternatives to Qwen3 32B

ModeloCusto médio ponderado por US$ 1 milhãoVocê economiza
Gemma 3 27B aberta $0.0960 20% cheaper

Hospedar localmente ou pagar pela API?

Qwen3 32B is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~20 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (RTX 4090 24GB (Q4)). Self-hosting only beats the API once your volume is high enough to keep that hardware busy — the calculadora de autohospedagem versus API calcula o ponto de equilíbrio para seu volume de tokens.

Perguntas frequentes

How much does Qwen3 32B cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen3 32B costs $0.0800 per 1M input tokens and $0.280 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.120 per 1M tokens.

How much does Qwen3 32B cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $3.00 on Qwen3 32B. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $0.15.

What is a cheaper alternative to Qwen3 32B?

Gemma 3 27B is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $0.0960 per 1M blended — about 20% less than Qwen3 32B. It is also open-weight, so self-hosting is an option.

Can I run Qwen3 32B locally?

Yes. Qwen3 32B is open-weight and needs about ~20 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (RTX 4090 24GB (Q4)).

Why does Qwen3 32B charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. Qwen3 32B charges 3.5× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

Os preços correspondem às tarifas listadas oficialmente para a API principal do modelo e são revisados conforme os provedores os atualizam. Descontos por volume, processamento em lote ou entradas em cache não estão incluídos. Compare todos os modelos lado a lado na Banco de dados de modelos de IA ou o Ranking de LLMs.

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