Qwen-72B vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
157 K
QuantTrio · B · Open weights
Params
31.1 B
Context
—
30d
163 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen-72B Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 72.3 B 31.1 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel Qwen3VLMoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 32,768 —
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 2 —
Downloads 30d 157,322 162,536
Downloads all time 7.5 M 9.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2025-10-04

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

4.2 M157 K
Qwen-72B Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 24.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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