Qwen3-4B vs LLaDA-8B-Instruct

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
GSAI-ML · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
239 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B LLaDA-8B-Instruct
Parameters 4.0 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LLaDAModelLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 6,941,310 238,685
Downloads all time 80.5 M 6.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-02-19

Download trend

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

7.3 M221 K
Qwen3-4B LLaDA-8B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LLaDA-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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