gemma-4-31B-it vs Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
32.7 B
Context
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30d
7.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
—
30d
1.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-4-31B-it Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 32.7 B —
Architecture Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration —
Context length 262,144 —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 7,079,469 1,789,168
Downloads all time 73.4 M 11.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-03-11 2026-02-28
API input price / 1M tokens $0.20 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.40 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.60 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens — not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index 4.4 not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index 43.4 not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index 4.2 not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 16,384 not on OpenRouter
API providers 16 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

gemma-4-31B-it $0.60

Download trend

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

10.0 M978 K
gemma-4-31B-it Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF · Q4_0 6.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-4-31B-it · fp16 74.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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