Qwen3-4B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B

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
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
7.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
322 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B
Parameters 4.0 B 7.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 321,610
Downloads all time 94.5 M 15.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-01-20

Download trend

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

12.6 M245 K
Qwen3-4B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 35.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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