Qwen3.8 Flash Next
Qwen3.8 Flash Next is an open-weights language model from Qwen, released August 24, 2026. It has 125B parameters (mixture-of-experts, 6B active). The context window is 256K tokens.
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Can you run Qwen3.8 Flash Next locally?
The smallest common GPU it runs on is 8 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): IQ2_XXS, GPU + experts in RAM, roughly 43 tokens per second. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Runs · GPU + CPU experts | IQ2_XXS (heavy loss) | 7.2 GB | 26.0 GB | ~43 |
| 12 GB VRAM | Runs via Strata | Strata pack | – | 22.0 GB | ~51 |
| 16 GB VRAM | Runs via Strata | Strata pack | – | 18.0 GB | ~62 |
| 24 GB VRAM | Runs via Strata | Strata pack | – | 25.6 GB | ~52 |
| 32 GB VRAM | Runs via Strata | Strata pack | – | 17.6 GB | ~73 |
Ready-made quantizations on Hugging Face: ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-GGUF · unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF · agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Gyro-GGUF · orcarouter/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-GGUF · huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-abliterated-v2-GGUF · ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-Coder-GGUF
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for Qwen3.8 Flash Next yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
Links
Hugging Face: Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · Strata
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