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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B
Params
3.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
180 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Parameters 4.0 B 3.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 6,941,310 179,975
Downloads all time 80.5 M 3.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-25

Download trend

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

7.3 M157 K
Qwen3-4B Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

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 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 15.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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