Qwen3-32B vs QwQ-32B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-32B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 32.8 B | 32.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 40,960 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,880,776 | 193,789 |
| Downloads all time | 61.0 M | 3.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-03-05 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.08 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.28 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.36 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.3 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 3 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-32B
$0.36
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
10.1 M194 K
Qwen3-32B
QwQ-32B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-32B · fp16
77.5 GB / 24 GB
QwQ-32B · fp16
77.5 GB / 24 GB