Qwen3-32B vs Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 7 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
moonshotai · B
Params
49.1 B
Context
30d
191 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-32B Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct
Parameters 32.8 B 49.1 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM KimiLinearForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,917,936 190,802
Downloads all time 57.6 M 1.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-10-30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 57 days (28 Jul – 22 Sep)

10.1 M176 K
Qwen3-32B Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct · fp16 115.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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