gemma-4-31B-it vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
32.7 B
Context
—
30d
8.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
31.1 B
Context
—
30d
16 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-4-31B-it Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 32.7 B 31.1 B
Architecture Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLMoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 262,144 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 8,540,107 15,613
Downloads all time 69.2 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-03-11 2025-09-30
API input price / 1M tokens $0.20 $0.29
API output price / 1M tokens $0.40 $1.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.60 $1.29
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 14.7 9.5
AA Coding Index 43.4 —
AA Agentic Index 4.2 —
Max output tokens 16,384 235,929
API providers 12 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

gemma-4-31B-it $0.60
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking $1.29

gemma-4-31B-it is 2.2× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

12.4 M16 K
gemma-4-31B-it Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking · fp16 73.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gemma-4-31B-it · fp16 74.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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