| Model | Score | Status | Released | Price in/out | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QwQ-32B open-weight always-on reasoning at 32B | 6.8 | GA | 2025-03-04 | $0.12 / $0.18 | 131K | Review → |
QwQ-32B is Alibaba's open-weight reasoning model — the direct response to DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1/o3-mini — shipped to full GA 2025-03-05 under Apache 2.0 (a preview shipped November 2024). It is a 32.5B dense decoder trained with reinforcement learning to produce long chain-of-thought by default; unlike Qwen3's optional thinking toggle, QwQ-32B is always reasoning. The buyer's sentence: DeepSeek-R1-class reasoning at 32B parameters, single-GPU and Apache-licensed, but always-on CoT makes it a routed sub-tier, not a general default.
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