Qwen-72B vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M
meta-llama · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
30d
916 K
llama3.3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen-72B Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Parameters 72.3 B 70.6 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence other llama3.3
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages 2 8
Downloads 30d 4,169,684 916,029
Downloads all time 7.4 M 14.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2024-11-26

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

4.2 M287 K
Qwen-72B Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct · fp16 166.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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