DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B vs Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
371 K
mit · commercial OK
NousResearch · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
339 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B
Parameters 8.2 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence mit llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 370,533 339,397
Downloads all time 8.6 M 5.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-29 2024-07-28

Download trend

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

1.3 M337 K
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B A overtook B on 5 Nov

VRAM side by side

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

Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 37.4 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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