Qwen3-4B vs Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
11.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
13.9 B
Context
—
30d
121 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 4.0 B 13.9 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 11
Downloads 30d 11,396,683 121,316
Downloads all time 92.7 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-10-31
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.20
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.40
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.02
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 6
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 14.4
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 1.1
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 209,715
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 $0.40

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

12.6 M119 K
Qwen3-4B Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 · fp16 37.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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