Qwen3-4B vs gemma-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
google · B · Open weights
Params
8.5 B
Context
—
30d
200 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B gemma-7b
Parameters 4.0 B 8.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GemmaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 200,487
Downloads all time 94.5 M 3.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-02-08

Download trend

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

12.6 M150 K
Qwen3-4B gemma-7b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-7b · fp16 20.6 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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