Qwen3-4B vs Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
11.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 4.0 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 11,578,451 1,400,083
Downloads all time 92.7 M 17.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

12.6 M1.4 M
Qwen3-4B Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 13.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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