Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 vs Qwen3-4B-Base

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
4.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Qwen3-4B-Base
Parameters 4.0 B 4.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 262,144 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 3,978,519 1,533,217
Downloads all time 61.8 M 22.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-05 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

4.0 M661 K
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 Qwen3-4B-Base

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B-Base · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 28.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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