Qwen3-32B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B
Params
32.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
479 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-32B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Parameters 32.8 B 32.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,959,369 479,226
Downloads all time 57.5 M 27.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-01-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

10.1 M479 K
Qwen3-32B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 151.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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