AstaBrief 8B
A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.
Overview
According to Ai2, AstaBrief 8B is an open-weight model built from Qwen3-8B, trained via SFT and DPO to quickly generate cited scientific reports from retrieved literature excerpts, available as the Fast mode in its Asta system.
Skill profile
Not disclosed
Strengths
- Open-source and self-hostable
Limitations
- No documented EU residency
- API pricing not disclosed
Who is it for
- you want to control cost or self-host
- you handle sensitive data with no EU option
Access & availability
Key specifications
What it costs per month
Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.
Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.
nAIvigate Trust Index
What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.
12/19 criteria documented · 63 % · 7 of them set by rule
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[](https://naivigate.com/en/model/astabrief-8b)Data & compliance
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| EU data residency | Not documented |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | Not documented |
| Transfer outside the EU | Not documented |
| Training on your data | Not documented |
| Configurable retention | Not documented |
| Zero Data Retention | Not documented |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Declared hosting | self |
Quality of this card’s data
This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.
2/8 documented · 0/8 primary sources
| API pricingopen weights, no API pricing | missing | |
| Context window | nAIvigate assessment | |
| Arena Elo | missing | |
| Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…) | missing | |
| Licence | nAIvigate assessment | |
| Data & compliance | missing | |
| Adoption (Hugging Face) | missing | |
| Hardware requirements (quantizations)computed from model size | missing |
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