Qwen3-4B vs OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
apple · B · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
—
30d
184 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct
Parameters 4.0 B 1.1 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM OpenELMForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 apple-amlr
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 184,416
Downloads all time 94.5 M 27.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-04-12

Download trend

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

12.6 M184 K
Qwen3-4B OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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