Qwen3-8B vs North-Mini-Code-1.0

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
CohereLabs · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
500,000
30d
7 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B North-Mini-Code-1.0
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 8.2 B 30.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Cohere2MoeForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 500,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 8,164,793 7,070
Downloads all time 133.8 M 88 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-06-05
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter Free
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter Free
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter Free
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 9.9
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 36.5
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 1.1
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 64,000
API providers not on OpenRouter —
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

North-Mini-Code-1.0 Free

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

16.6 M7 K
Qwen3-8B North-Mini-Code-1.0

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
North-Mini-Code-1.0 · fp16 @ 488K ctx 346.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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