Overview
Qwen 3 8B by Alibaba Cloud is a multilingual powerhouse supporting 100+ languages. Apache 2.0 licensed for unlimited commercial use. Runs locally via Ollama with OpenAI-compatible REST API. Supports tool calling, code generation, and structured output. Recommended: g4dn.xlarge (GPU) for production. t3.micro for free trial. Published by Waltsoft. Competes with GPT-4o-mini at zero ongoing cost.
Highlights
- Transcribe audio in 90+ languages with a single REST API call
- Deploy in under 5 minutes with Docker-based one-click AMI
- Process hours of audio with no per-minute API fees on your own EC2 instance
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
t3.medium Recommended | t3.medium instance | $0.50 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance | $0.00 |
t3.large | t3.large instance | $0.50 |
m5.large | m5.large instance | $0.50 |
m5.xlarge | m5.xlarge instance | $0.50 |
r5.large | r5.large instance | $0.50 |
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No refunds. Cancel anytime. Contact support@waltsoft.net .
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Initial release. qwen3:8b via Ollama on Ubuntu 24.04. Pull-on-boot.
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Usage instructions
For GPU inference: launch g4dn.xlarge ($0.53/hr). For 70B models: g5.12xlarge. t3.micro for free trial (CPU-only, very slow). First boot downloads model (~5-8GB). API: http://<public-ip>:11434/api/generate. OpenAI-compatible: http://<public-ip>:11434/v1/chat/completions
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Community support via GitHub issues. Email support@waltsoft.net for critical issues.
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