Qwen3-32B-AWQ vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 1 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
707 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
—
30d
210 K
llama3.3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B-AWQ Llama-3.3-70B-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 llama3.3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 8
Downloads 30d 706,591 209,625
Downloads all time 10.1 M 14.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-01 2024-11-26
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.10
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.32
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.42
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 7.7
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 11.9
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 16,384
API providers not on OpenRouter 9
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct $0.42

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

2.0 M210 K
Qwen3-32B-AWQ Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct A overtook B on 29 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-32B-AWQ · fp16 26.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct · fp16 166.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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