Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct vs Qwen3-14B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
827 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
9.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct Qwen3-14B
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 14.8 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 826,546 9,211,389
Downloads all time 49.7 M 37.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2025-04-27
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.12
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.24
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.36
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 6.7
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 16,384
API providers not on OpenRouter 2
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-14B $0.36

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

9.2 M827 K
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct Qwen3-14B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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