Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-unsloth-bnb-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.7 M
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
153 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-unsloth-bnb-4bit
Parameters 3.1 B 4.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 3,718,369 152,773
Downloads all time 124.5 M 1.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-08-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

7.6 M150 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-unsloth-bnb-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
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-unsloth-bnb-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx 23.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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