Qwen-72B vs Qwen3-235B-A22B

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

Qwen · A
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M
Qwen · B
Params
235.1 B
Context
40,960
30d
348 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen-72B Qwen3-235B-A22B
Parameters 72.3 B 235.1 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 40,960
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 4,220,611 348,087
Downloads all time 7.5 M 7.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2025-04-27

Download trend

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

4.2 M322 K
Qwen-72B Qwen3-235B-A22B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-235B-A22B · fp16 553.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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