Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit

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
cyankiwi · B
Params
5.3 B
Context
262,144
30d
583 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit
Parameters 8.0 B 5.3 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 262,144
Licence llama3.1 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 582,899
Downloads all time 175.3 M 2.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2025-08-01

Download trend

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

8.0 M494 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit

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
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx 45.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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