Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3-4B-AWQ
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct | Qwen3-4B-AWQ |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 3.1 B | 4.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 40,960 |
| Licence | other | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 5,952,246 | 463,285 |
| Downloads all time | 110.0 M | 3.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-17 | 2025-05-05 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
6.0 M463 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
Qwen3-4B-AWQ
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B-AWQ · fp16
4.0 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16
7.8 GB / 24 GB