Qwen3-4B vs Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
microsoft · B
Params
3.8 B
Context
4,096
30d
544 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
Parameters 4.0 B 3.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Phi3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 4,598,181 543,674
Downloads all time 70.7 M 30.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-04-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.6 M544 K
Qwen3-4B Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct · fp16 9.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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