Qwen3-4B vs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-4B | DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.0 B | 8.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 6,941,310 | 857,619 |
| Downloads all time | 80.5 M | 7.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-05-29 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
7.3 M858 K
Qwen3-4B
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B · fp16
10.0 GB / 24 GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B · fp16 @ 128K ctx
38.2 GB / 24 GB