Qwen3-4B vs Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 16 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
7.6 B
Context
1,010,000
30d
197 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M
Parameters 4.0 B 7.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 1,010,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 6,941,310 197,266
Downloads all time 80.5 M 10.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-01-23

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

7.3 M173 K
Qwen3-4B Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M · fp16 @ 986K ctx 158.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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