Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 17 September 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
679 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
40,960
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 14.8 B | 30.5 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 40,960 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 679,049 | 1,115,081 |
| Downloads all time | 50.1 M | 23.2 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 | $0.50 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.62 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| 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 | 1 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-30B-A3B
$0.62
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
3.2 M679 K
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
Qwen3-30B-A3B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct · fp16
35.2 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B · fp16
72.3 GB / 24 GB