Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
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
629 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct | Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 629,386 |
| Downloads all time | 18.9 M | 15.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-11-06 | 2025-07-31 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.07 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.28 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.35 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | 9.6 |
| 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 | 2 |
| 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-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
$0.35
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
3.1 M384 K
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct · fp16
35.2 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct · fp16 @ 256K ctx
214.2 GB / 24 GB