Qwen: Qwen3 32B
Qwen3 32B offers a meaningful step up in coding and math performance at an extremely competitive price ($0.08/1M input), with tool use and function calling support. While its overall reasoning index is still limited compared to top-tier models, it represents solid value for technical tasks in cost-sensitive environments.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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Qwen3-32B is a dense 32.8B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, optimized for both complex reasoning and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for tasks like math, coding, and logical inference, and a "non-thinking" mode for faster, general-purpose conversation. The model demonstrates strong performance in instruction-following, agent tool use, creative writing, and multilingual tasks across 100+ languages and dialects. It natively handles 32K token contexts and can extend to 131K tokens using YaRN-based scaling.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Instruct Type | qwen3 |
| Parameters | 32B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.08 | $0.000080 |
| Output | $0.24 | $0.000240 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
Leaderboard Categories
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 15, 2026 7:52 pm