Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 14.8 B 30.5 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 1,674,534 1,073,700
Downloads all time 18.9 M 18.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-11-06 2025-07-28
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.09
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.30
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.39
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 7.5
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 235,929
API providers not on OpenRouter 3
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 $0.39

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

3.1 M752 K
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 214.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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