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Qwen3-8B

Qwen · text-generation
OlderText
▲ 61Trending score
12.7MDownloads
♥ 2kLikes
1 year agoLast updated
#74of 150 tracked models
top 49% by trending score
Model IDQwen/Qwen3-8B
AuthorQwen
Tasktext-generation
CategoryText
Licenseapache-2.0
Parameters8.2B
Trending score61
Downloads12,717,110
Likes1,995
Radar rank#74
HealthOlder
Freshness1 year ago (415.5 days)
Last modified2025-07-26T03:49:13.000Z

Qwen3-8B is a text-generation model in the Text category, published by Qwen. These figures are Hugging Face's own signals — downloads, likes and trending score — captured by Model Radar and refreshed daily. For weights, model card and usage, open it on Hugging Face.

Surge analysis

why it's on the radar

Hugging Face publishes a single trending score; it doesn't expose the formula. So Model Radar reads the surge from the four public signals that move with it — momentum, adoption, community and recency — each normalized against the tracked field, then weighted into a 0–100 composite. The weights are ours, and shown below. No hidden inputs.

60Radar surge index / 100
Momentum 54 / 100 · 45% weight
HF trending score 61, log-scaled vs the field's peak of 2117.
Adoption 85 / 100 · 25% weight
12.7M downloads, log-scaled vs the field's peak.
Community 79 / 100 · 18% weight
2k likes, log-scaled vs the field's peak.
Recency 7 / 100 · 12% weight
Last updated 1 year ago — newer weights higher.

Radar position over time

movement

Where Qwen3-8B sits on the radar, tracked daily — new to the radar since the prior run. position movement fills in as the radar refreshes daily.

#74Current rank
#74Best rank
NEWSince prior run

In context

vs. category peers

How this model stacks up against the other 42 Text models on the radar. The filled bar is this model; the tick is the category-peer median. Downloads and likes use a log scale (they span orders of magnitude).

Trending score▲ 61 · peer median ▲ 60
Downloads12.7M · peer median 73k
Likes♥ 2k · peer median ♥ 616
Freshness1 year ago · peer median 6 days ago

Bars are normalized against the most extreme model in the whole radar, so a near-full bar means category-leading. Peer median = the middle model of the 42 in this category.

Recency

last update

Where this model's last update lands on a freshness scale — fresh (<14d), recent (14–60d), or older.

updated 1 year ago
today14d60d1y+

Category peers

Text · 42 models

Other Text models ranked near this one — click through to compare.

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Primary links

on hugging face

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