Phi-3.5-mini-instruct vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

microsoft · A

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Params

3.8 B

Context

131,072

30d

341 K

mit · commercial OK

nvidia · B

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16

Params

4.0 B

Context

262,144

30d

3.5 M

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Phi-3.5-mini-instruct	NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16
Parameters	3.8 B	4.0 B
Architecture	Phi3ForCausalLM	NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length	131,072	262,144
Licence	mit	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	1	1
Downloads 30d	340,680	3,492,652
Downloads all time	12.7 M	6.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-08-16	2026-03-07

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

3.5 M277 K

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16

VRAM side by side

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

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 18.1 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 28.3 GB / 24 GB

❌ Won’t fit

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