Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 vs Llama-3.2-3B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
3.2 B
Context
30d
368 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Llama-3.2-3B
Parameters 4.0 B 3.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 3,978,519 367,942
Downloads all time 61.8 M 14.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-05 2024-09-18

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.0 M339 K
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Llama-3.2-3B

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-3B · fp16 8.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 28.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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