Qwen3-14B vs Llama-3.1-8B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 July 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-14B | Llama-3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 14.8 B | 8.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.1 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,021,818 | 533,561 |
| Downloads all time | 28.3 M | 28.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-07-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
3.2 M493 K
Qwen3-14B
Llama-3.1-8B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.1-8B · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-14B · fp16
35.2 GB / 24 GB