DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B vs falcon-7b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 2 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
858 K
mit · commercial OK
tiiuae · B
Params
7.2 B
Context
30d
379 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B falcon-7b
Parameters 8.2 B 7.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM FalconForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 857,619 379,202
Downloads all time 7.8 M 16.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-29 2023-04-24

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

2.0 M327 K
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B falcon-7b

VRAM side by side

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

falcon-7b · fp16 17.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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