Qwen3-4B vs Llama-2-7b-hf

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
meta-llama · B
Params
6.7 B
Context
30d
806 K
llama2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Llama-2-7b-hf
Parameters 4.0 B 6.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 llama2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 6,941,310 805,724
Downloads all time 80.5 M 34.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-07-13

Download trend

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

7.3 M727 K
Qwen3-4B Llama-2-7b-hf

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-2-7b-hf · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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