Qwen3-4B vs Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-4B | Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.0 B | 8.1 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | ApertusForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 65,536 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 6,941,310 | 471,996 |
| Downloads all time | 80.5 M | 3.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-08-13 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
7.3 M297 K
Qwen3-4B
Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B · fp16
10.0 GB / 24 GB
Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB