Qwen3 8B deprecated, retires 2026-10-09

Alibaba's Qwen3 8B model, released 2025-04-01, is deprecated and retires on 2026-10-09, according to a provider announcement tracked by models.dev. The model supports a 131k context window with 8k max output and is identified by the IDs qwen3-8b and alibaba/qwen3-8b. The retirement notice is being surfaced by llmstatus.ai, which scans repositories to flag models on a deprecation clock.

QW▲ Retiring soon Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen · qwen3-8b Released2025-04-01 Retires2026-10-09in 12d qwentext131k context8k max out also matches: qwen3-8b alibaba/qwen3-8b provider announcement → https://models.dev/alibaba/qwen3-8b Does your code call Qwen3 8B? $ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded. Get alerted before it retires → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up