Qwen3-32B vs Qwen-72B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-32B Qwen-72B
Parameters 32.8 B 72.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM QWenLMHeadModel
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 5,035,207 4,169,684
Downloads all time 57.4 M 7.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-11-26

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

10.1 M1.4 M
Qwen3-32B Qwen-72B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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