Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 9 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
mlx-community · B
Params
1.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
905 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit
Parameters 3.1 B 1.3 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other llama3.1
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 5,973,026 904,691
Downloads all time 118.2 M 946 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-02-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 44 days (28 Jul – 9 Sep)

7.6 M185 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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