Qwen3-32B-AWQ vs Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 1 August 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
222 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
—
30d
203 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-32B-AWQ | Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 32.8 B | 70.6 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.1 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 222,442 | 203,439 |
| Downloads all time | 10.2 M | 24.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-05-01 | 2024-07-16 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.72 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.72 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $1.44 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 8,192 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 1 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | No |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
$1.44
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
1.0 M203 K
Qwen3-32B-AWQ
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
A overtook B on 26 Aug
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-32B-AWQ · fp16
26.7 GB / 24 GB
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct · fp16
166.3 GB / 24 GB