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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
2.6 M
cyankiwi · B · Open weights
Params
30.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
406 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit
Parameters 3.1 B 30.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 2,587,484 405,964
Downloads all time 125.6 M 5.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-08-01

Download trend

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

7.6 M406 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-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-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx 164.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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