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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 2 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
2.6 M
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
4.1 B
Context
40,960
30d
188 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-unsloth-bnb-4bit
Parameters 3.1 B 4.1 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 40,960
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,587,484 187,861
Downloads all time 125.6 M 1.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-04-28

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

7.6 M176 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-unsloth-bnb-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B-unsloth-bnb-4bit · fp16 5.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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