Qwen3-30B-A3B vs Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
30.5 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
microsoft · B
Params
41.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
161 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-30B-A3B Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Parameters 30.5 B 41.9 B
Architecture Qwen3MoeForCausalLM PhiMoEForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,060,898 161,233
Downloads all time 17.9 M 2.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-08-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

3.2 M161 K
Qwen3-30B-A3B Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-30B-A3B · fp16 72.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 193.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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