Qwen3-4B vs pythia-6.9b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
EleutherAI · B · Open weights
Params
7.0 B
Context
2,048
30d
414 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B pythia-6.9b
Parameters 4.0 B 7.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 413,851
Downloads all time 94.5 M 3.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-02-14

Download trend

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

12.6 M287 K
Qwen3-4B pythia-6.9b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
pythia-6.9b · fp16 16.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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