Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
216 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
190 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Parameters 14.8 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 216,255 189,567
Downloads all time 8.1 M 9.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-11-09 2025-01-20

Download trend

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

1.9 M190 K
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B A overtook B on 28 Oct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 13.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 68.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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