Qwen3-14B vs LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-6bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
12.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
lmstudio-community · B · Open weights
Params
23.8 B
Context
128,000
30d
149 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-14B LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-6bit
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 14.8 B 23.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Lfm2MoeForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 9
Downloads 30d 12,904,408 148,924
Downloads all time 46.1 M 2.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-02-23
API input price / 1M tokens $0.10 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.22 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.32 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens — not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index 13.8 not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index 0.9 not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 36,864 not on OpenRouter
API providers 2 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

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

Qwen3-14B $0.32

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

13.0 M139 K
Qwen3-14B LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-6bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-6bit · fp16 @ 125K ctx 77.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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