Qwen3-4B vs llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
11.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
8,192
30d
247 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit
Parameters 4.0 B 8.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 11,364,244 247,159
Downloads all time 92.8 M 3.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-04-18

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

12.6 M155 K
Qwen3-4B llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit · fp16 8.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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