Qwen-72B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 5 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M
deepseek-ai · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
189 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen-72B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
Parameters 72.3 B 70.6 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 4,220,611 189,344
Downloads all time 7.5 M 5.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2025-01-20

Download trend

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

4.2 M189 K
Qwen-72B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 325.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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