Qwen3-4B vs Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-4B | Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.0 B | 7.6 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 13 |
| Downloads 30d | 6,941,310 | 292,221 |
| Downloads all time | 80.5 M | 2.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-09-18 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
7.3 M185 K
Qwen3-4B
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B · fp16
10.0 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16
18.4 GB / 24 GB