Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507

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
4.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
3.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
Parameters 7.6 B 4.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 12,117,940 3,238,838
Downloads all time 165.8 M 55.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2025-08-05

Download trend

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

12.2 M3.2 M
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507

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
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 28.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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