Qwen3-4B vs Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RedHatAI · B · Open weights
Params
3.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
173 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8
Parameters 4.0 B 3.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 8
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 173,310
Downloads all time 94.5 M 531 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-26

Download trend

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

12.6 M173 K
Qwen3-4B Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 14.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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