Qwen3-4B vs Fanar-1-9B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
11.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
QCRI · B · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
4,096
30d
195 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B Fanar-1-9B-Instruct
Parameters 4.0 B 8.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 11,364,244 195,303
Downloads all time 92.8 M 825 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-06-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

12.6 M195 K
Qwen3-4B Fanar-1-9B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Fanar-1-9B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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