Qwen3-0.6B vs Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 9 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
21.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
mlx-community · B
Params
1.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
905 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-0.6B Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit
Parameters 750 M 1.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.1
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 21,493,027 904,691
Downloads all time 206.9 M 946 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-02-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 44 days (28 Jul – 9 Sep)

30.1 M185 K
Qwen3-0.6B Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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