Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 vs Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-AWQ

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
Qwen · B
Params
3.4 B
Context
32,768
30d
427 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 4.0 B 3.4 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 262,144 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,978,519 426,674
Downloads all time 61.8 M 2.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-05 2024-09-17

Download trend

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

4.0 M159 K
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 4.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 28.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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