Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 vs Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

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
microsoft · B
Params
3.8 B
Context
4,096
30d
407 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
Parameters 4.0 B 3.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Phi3ForCausalLM
Context length 262,144 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 3,978,519 406,665
Downloads all time 61.8 M 31.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-05 2024-04-22

Download trend

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

4.0 M407 K
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct · fp16 9.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 28.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

Adjacent comparisons