DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B vs Mistral-7B-v0.1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 1 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
371 K
mit · commercial OK
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
7.2 B
Context
32,768
30d
405 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Mistral-7B-v0.1
Parameters 8.2 B 7.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 370,533 405,199
Downloads all time 8.6 M 28.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-29 2023-09-20

Download trend

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

1.3 M240 K
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Mistral-7B-v0.1

VRAM side by side

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

Mistral-7B-v0.1 · 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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