Qwen-72B vs Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 17 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen-72B | Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 72.3 B | 70.6 B |
| Architecture | QWenLMHeadModel | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | — |
| Licence | other | llama3.1 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Conditional |
| Languages | 2 | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,220,611 | 203,439 |
| Downloads all time | 7.5 M | 24.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-11-26 | 2024-07-16 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
4.2 M203 K
Qwen-72B
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct · fp16
166.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen-72B · fp16
170.4 GB / 24 GB