Qwen3-4B vs Phi-4-mini-instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
3.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
332 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-4B | Phi-4-mini-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.0 B | 3.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Phi3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 24 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,013,632 | 331,860 |
| Downloads all time | 94.5 M | 9.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-02-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.6 M332 K
Qwen3-4B
Phi-4-mini-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B · fp16
10.0 GB / 24 GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
18.2 GB / 24 GB