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QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B · Family: Qwen
Alibaba/Qwen dense reasoning model (2025): 32.5B, RL-trained; matches DeepSeek-R1 (671B) at ~21× smaller size. 131K context, open weights (Apache 2.0).
✓ Active✓ Public access⚖ Open sourceLLMReasoning modelTool-using model📁 Qwen
Context window
131K
tokens
Parameters
32,5B (dense)
parameters
Release date
6 March 2025
Access:DownloadAPIHostedDeployment:💻 Local☁ Cloud

Overview

QwQ-32B is a reasoning model developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, released on 6 March 2025. It is a dense model at about 32.5 billion parameters, designed for advanced step-by-step reasoning.

The model was trained with a strong emphasis on reinforcement learning (RL) using outcome-based rewards, in two stages: first for math and coding, then for general capabilities. As a result, QwQ-32B achieves performance comparable to DeepSeek-R1 (671B parameters, 37B active), despite being about 21× smaller.

QwQ-32B has built-in agentic capabilities — it can reason while using tools and adapt its reasoning based on environmental feedback. It supports a 131,072-token context window, and thanks to its small size it fits on a single 24 GB GPU with quantization.

The model is released under the Apache 2.0 license (open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, also available in Qwen Chat), permitting commercial and non-commercial use, self-hosting and fine-tuning. QwQ is the reasoning line within Alibaba’s Qwen model family.

Classification
LLMReasoning modelTool-using model
Family: Qwen
Access & deployment
DownloadAPIHosted
LocalCloud
Weights: Open source
Key parameters
📏 Context: 131K
🧩 Parameters: 32,5B (dense)
Tools · ✓ Fine-tuning
📥 Input: text

Technical specification

Context window
131K
tokens
Parameters
32,5B (dense)
parameters
License
Apache 2.0
Hardware requirements
Thanks to its small size, it fits on a single 24 GB GPU with quantization.
Features:Tool useFine-tuning
Modalities
⬇ Input
text
⬆ Output
textcode

Capabilities and applications

Native model capabilities
Reasoning
The model's ability to reason logically and solve complex problems.
Category: reasoning
Advanced reasoning
The ability to perform multi-step, structured reasoning: analysing problems, planning steps, and drawing conclusions from hypotheses. Reasoning-first models (e.g. GPT-5.1 Thinking) dedicate a portion of inference to chains of thought before responding.
Category: reasoning
Multi-step reasoning
Carrying out multi-step chains of reasoning across long, complex tasks.
Category: reasoning
Mathematical reasoning
The model's ability to solve mathematical tasks requiring multi-step reasoning — equations, proofs, combinatorics, geometry, calculus and competition-level problems.
Category: reasoning
Coding
Generating, analysing and modifying code in many programming languages. Covers writing functions, debugging, refactoring, code review, and creating tests. Measured by benchmarks such as HumanEval and SWE-bench.
Category: coding
Agentic coding
Multi-hour, multi-step programming tasks performed autonomously by the model: cloning a repository, running tests, iterating on fixes, integrating with CLI tools. Characteristic of Codex variants (GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini, Codex-Max).
Category: coding
Agentic capability
The model's ability to autonomously plan and execute multi-step tasks by sequentially using tools, maintaining context, and adapting to intermediate results.
Category: planning
Tool use
The model's ability to call external functions, APIs and tools during a conversation: calculator, search engine, code editor, database. The model decides when and how to use a tool and interprets its result.
Category: planning
Extended thinking mode
A reasoning-model variant with a larger inference budget: more thinking cycles, higher answer precision at the cost of response time. Choice between 'standard' and 'extended' thinking is left to the user (e.g. the selector in GPT-5.2 Pro).
Category: reasoning
Long context
Support for large context windows — tens to hundreds of thousands (or millions) of input tokens. Enables analysis of entire codebases, long documents, and many parallel conversations without losing earlier information. GPT-5.1 supports 400,000 tokens.
Category: language
Multilingual
Competence in many natural languages (from a few to over a hundred): understanding, generation, translation, and code-switching within a single conversation. Frontier models support a wide range of languages with comparable quality.
Category: language
Structured output
Producing data in structured formats such as JSON.
Category: structured_generation
Language modeling
Ability to predict subsequent tokens and generate coherent natural-language text based on the preceding context.
Category: language

Technical architecture

Deployment and security