Qwen3-4B vs gemma-2-2b-it

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B
Params
2.6 B
Context
30d
663 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B gemma-2-2b-it
Parameters 4.0 B 2.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages
Downloads 30d 6,941,310 663,331
Downloads all time 80.5 M 11.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-07-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

7.3 M557 K
Qwen3-4B gemma-2-2b-it

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-2-2b-it · fp16 6.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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