DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B vs EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 4 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
371 K
mit · commercial OK
LGAI-EXAONE · B · Open weights
Params
7.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
411 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct
Parameters 8.2 B 7.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM ExaoneForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 370,533 410,768
Downloads all time 8.6 M 4.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-29 2024-12-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.3 M236 K
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct · fp16 36.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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