Qwen3-4B vs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
161 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF
Parameters 4.0 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 160,771
Downloads all time 94.5 M 3.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-05-29

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

12.6 M139 K
Qwen3-4B DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF · Q4_0 7.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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