Qwen3-4B vs Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
177 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-4B | Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.0 B | 8.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.1 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 11,364,244 | 176,516 |
| Downloads all time | 92.8 M | 2.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-02-15 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
12.6 M167 K
Qwen3-4B
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B · fp16
10.0 GB / 24 GB
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
37.4 GB / 24 GB