Qwen-72B vs Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 27 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
157 K
hugging-quants · B · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
140 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen-72B Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4
Parameters 72.3 B 70.6 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other llama3.1
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages 2 8
Downloads 30d 157,322 140,116
Downloads all time 7.5 M 5.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2024-07-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

4.2 M140 K
Qwen-72B Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 213.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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