Qwen3-32B-AWQ vs QwQ-32B

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
686 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
194 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B-AWQ QwQ-32B
Parameters 32.8 B 32.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 686,315 193,789
Downloads all time 10.1 M 3.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-01 2025-03-05

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

2.0 M194 K
Qwen3-32B-AWQ QwQ-32B

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
QwQ-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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