Qwen-72B vs Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 22 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M
Qwen · B
Params
235.1 B
Context
262,144
30d
197 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen-72B Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Parameters 72.3 B 235.1 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 4,212,967 197,322
Downloads all time 7.5 M 1.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2025-07-21

Download trend

57 days of snapshots recorded — chart in 0 days.

7.5 M
Qwen-72B · all-time downloads
1.8 M
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 · all-time downloads

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-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 1,646.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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