Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 vs Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 31 July 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
768 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
18.2 B
Context
30d
217 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4
Parameters 30.5 B 18.2 B
Architecture Qwen3MoeForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 768,035 217,456
Downloads all time 17.1 M 3.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-28 2026-06-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

2.1 M217 K
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 A overtook B on 5 Aug

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 · fp16 27.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 214.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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