Qwen3-4B vs Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

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
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
12.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
191 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 4.0 B 12.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 9
Downloads 30d 11,364,244 191,347
Downloads all time 92.8 M 10.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-07-17
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.029
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.03
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.059
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 16,384
API providers not on OpenRouter 5
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

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

Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 $0.059

Download trend

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

12.6 M191 K
Qwen3-4B Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 83.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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