Qwen3-32B vs Qwen3-14B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
9.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B Qwen3-14B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 32.8 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,751,050 9,211,389
Downloads all time 60.6 M 37.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-04-27
API input price / 1M tokens $0.08 $0.12
API output price / 1M tokens $0.28 $0.24
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.36 $0.36
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 7.3 6.7
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 16,384 16,384
API providers 3 2
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-32B $0.36
Qwen3-14B $0.36

Qwen3-14B is 1.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

10.1 M1.6 M
Qwen3-32B Qwen3-14B

VRAM side by side

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

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

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