Qwen3-4B vs PowerLM-3b

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
ibm-research · B
Params
3.5 B
Context
4,096
30d
203 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B PowerLM-3b
Parameters 4.0 B 3.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GraniteForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,598,181 202,930
Downloads all time 70.7 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-08-14

Download trend

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

4.6 M195 K
Qwen3-4B PowerLM-3b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
PowerLM-3b · fp16 16.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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