id: Qwen__Qwen3-8B__candidate
status: candidate
name: Qwen3-8B
org: Qwen
source:
  kind: huggingface
  url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B
  revision: main
  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B
license:
  spdx: Apache-2.0
  url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B
  allows_offline_retention: true
  allows_local_ops: true
  allows_fine_tune: true
  notes: "Confirm exact card license at download time; Qwen3 line generally Apache-2.0."
size:
  total_bytes: 0
  total_human: "~16 GB fp16 / ~5 GB Q4 (estimate)"
hardware_class:
  min_vram_gb_q4: 6
  min_vram_gb_fp16: 16
  notes: "Default T1–T2 general instruct and FT base"
axes: [B, C]
priority: high
collection:
  approved_by: ""
  approved_at: null
  downloaded_at: null
  downloaded_by: ""
  storage_path: ""
  brief_refs:
    - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
reason: "P0 spine — best default open general/tool model for local ops and QLoRA domain specialization."
tags: [instruct, text, qwen3, ft-base]
companions: []
notes: "Prefer Instruct variant on card if separate repo; pin commit SHA at collection."
history:
  - at: "2026-07-24"
    event: nominated
    by: baseline-survey
    detail: "P0 recommendation from initial deep research."