Qwen3.8-27B
Hugging Face (Qwen) Open weights
The catch: Thinking mode is on by default, so replies start with reasoning unless you disable it per request, and going past 262K context needs YaRN overrides in vLLM or SGLang.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. Apache 2.0, so no user cap. 27B dense parameters with native image and video understanding; 262,144-token native context, extensible to 1,000,000 tokens per the card. |
| Modality | text, code, image, video |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Apache-2.0 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens |
| Model id | Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use Qwen3.8-27B
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Quickstart
ollama run qwen3.8:27b
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Qwen3.8-27B" (Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Thinking mode is on by default, so replies start with reasoning unless you disable it per request, and going past 262K context needs YaRN overrides in vLLM or SGLang.
- Apache-2.0 (LICENSE file and licence tag on huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B); commercial use allowed, no user cap.
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Qwen3.8-27B free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Qwen3.8-27B commercially?
Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Qwen3.8-27B?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, checked 2 Oct 2026.