Qwen3-32B-AWQ vs Qwen2.5-72B-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
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-32B-AWQ | Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 32.8 B | 72.7 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 706,591 | 232,348 |
| Downloads all time | 10.1 M | 9.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-05-01 | 2024-09-16 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.36 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.40 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.76 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | 7.7 |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 16,384 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 1 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
$0.76
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
2.0 M232 K
Qwen3-32B-AWQ
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-32B-AWQ · fp16
26.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct · fp16
171.4 GB / 24 GB