Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
cyankiwi · B
Params
5.3 B
Context
262,144
30d
744 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit
Parameters 3.1 B 5.3 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 5,952,246 744,207
Downloads all time 110.0 M 2.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-07-29

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

6.0 M743 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-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
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx 45.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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