Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

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

meta-llama · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
8.0 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
deepseek-ai · B
Params
14.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
766 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Parameters 8.0 B 14.8 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence llama3.1 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 766,127
Downloads all time 175.3 M 8.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2025-01-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.0 M529 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 68.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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