Qwen3-14B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
9.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
588 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-14B Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 14.8 B 32.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 9,211,389 588,474
Downloads all time 37.8 M 13.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-11-06
API input price / 1M tokens $0.12 $0.66
API output price / 1M tokens $0.24 $1.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.36 $1.66
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 6.7 6.7
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 16,384 29,491
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
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct $1.66

Qwen3-14B is 4.6× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

9.2 M588 K
Qwen3-14B Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct A overtook B on 5 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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