Qwen3-32B vs Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
Parameters 32.8 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 8,346,113 3,333,642
Downloads all time 49.9 M 44.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.1 M3.3 M
Qwen3-32B Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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