Qwen3-14B vs Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
9.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
13.9 B
Context
—
30d
121 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-14B Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 14.8 B 13.9 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 11
Downloads 30d 9,401,416 121,316
Downloads all time 38.0 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-10-31
API input price / 1M tokens $0.12 $0.20
API output price / 1M tokens $0.24 $0.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.36 $0.40
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.02
AA Intelligence Index 6.7 6
AA Coding Index — 14.4
AA Agentic Index — 1.1
Max output tokens 16,384 209,715
API providers 2 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

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

Qwen3-14B $0.36
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 $0.40

Qwen3-14B is 1.1× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

9.4 M119 K
Qwen3-14B Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 · fp16 37.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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