Qwen3-14B vs phi-4
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-14B | phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 14.8 B | 14.7 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Phi3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 16,384 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,401,416 | 356,282 |
| Downloads all time | 38.0 M | 14.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-12-11 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.12 | $0.07 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.24 | $0.14 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.36 | $0.21 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 5.9 |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | 14,745 |
| API providers | 2 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | No |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-14B
$0.36
phi-4
$0.21
phi-4 is 1.7× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
9.4 M356 K
Qwen3-14B
phi-4
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
phi-4 · fp16
34.9 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-14B · fp16
35.2 GB / 24 GB