Qwen3-14B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 July 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
215 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-14B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
Parameters 14.8 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 2,021,818 214,947
Downloads all time 28.3 M 19.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-01-20

Download trend

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

3.2 M215 K
Qwen3-14B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 37.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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