Qwen3-14B vs Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

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
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
3.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
239 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-14B Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 14.8 B 3.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Phi3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 12,904,408 239,003
Downloads all time 46.1 M 12.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-04-22
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 M170 K
Qwen3-14B Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 18.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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