Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3-14B

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
12.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Qwen3-14B
Parameters 7.6 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 12,117,940 2,832,870
Downloads all time 165.8 M 25.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2025-04-27

Download trend

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

12.2 M2.8 M
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Qwen3-14B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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