Qwen3-14B vs shieldgemma-9b
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-14B | shieldgemma-9b |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 14.8 B | 9.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Gemma2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 12,904,408 | 255,931 |
| Downloads all time | 46.1 M | 314 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-07-16 |
| 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 M151 K
Qwen3-14B
shieldgemma-9b
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
shieldgemma-9b · fp16
22.2 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-14B · fp16
35.2 GB / 24 GB