Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct vs Meta-Llama-3-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 13 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
275 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct Meta-Llama-3-8B
Parameters 14.8 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 1,814,027 275,232
Downloads all time 16.9 M 47.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-11-06 2024-04-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

3.1 M275 K
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct Meta-Llama-3-8B

VRAM side by side

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

Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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